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He has said in interviews that he wrote the novel to explain when politics went off the rails in Latin America. This story of early regime change surprised the left with its warm appraisal of the left-leaning president overthrown by the CIA, and made Vargas Llosa a few new enemies among his usual friends on the right throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Harsh Times is a novel, not a historical tract, but anything Vargas Llosa writes is received across Latin America as a political statement. It even helps explain the course of the Cuban Revolution, if you like – and Vargas Llosa does like. The coup could be argued to have set in train the US anti-communist crusade of subversion, threats and invasion that played out over the next half-century. The CIA equipped and paid Central American rebels, and hired US mercenaries to fly bombers over Guatemala City, dropping first leaflets then bombs, while the US navy blockaded the coast. This was the second (acknowledged) US covert operation aimed at regime change, after Iran – a joint operation with MI6 – the previous year. Harsh Times, an understatement of a title, rehearses the coup in Guatemala and its muddled aftermath, the first years of blowback. All he had to do was lift them out and plop them down in his latest book, without bothering to do much by way of embellishment. They already seem cribbed from a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. There is the adman making a pitch to get involved in international relations, the nervy Central American president pouring out his whisky, the US ambassador with a feather in his fedora and a revolver in his shoulder holster, the Dominican hitman, the rat-eyed leader of a CIA-funded ‘liberation’ army. The players are exaggerated, almost parodic, even in the history books. Washington was convinced that the tiny republic was a threat, a reflection of growing anti-communist paranoia, and – in particular – of the ministrations of Sigmund Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, who was on the payroll of United Fruit, one of the US’s largest corporations. The year was 1954, and the CIA, still young and enthusiastic, had decided to overthrow the democratically elected president of Guatemala. T he coup is almost funny, if you squint.