"Orlando dice," a popular El Siglo newspaper column comments that former President Joaquín Balaguer engorged Mario Vargas Llosa’s most recent novel, "La Fiesta del Chivo." Balaguer didn’t wait for the Dominican version to be available this week, but ordered his copy from Spain. The column says that Balaguer’s aides had to read it to him in two days straight. The novel tells about the domination of the Dominican collective psyche by dictator Trujillo. But Vargas Llosa admitted that some readers have pointed out to him that the novel is more about Balaguer than Trujillo.
