"Finally I learned that the word happiness has a name: Isabel Preysler," said tonight the writer Mario Vargas Llosa in the toast dinner with the nobel prize held his eightieth birthday with his partner, family, friends and personalities from the world of politics and society in a hotel in Madrid.
Vargas Llosa has dedicated to Isabel Preysler the last words of the speech that thanked the celebration of his birthday, an intervention that has not missed the claim of literary creation, but also a harsh condemnation of the regimes of Cuba and Venezuela and defense of democracy in Latin America.
Vargas Llosa's speech closed a round of speeches which also involved his son Alvar and writer Juancho Armas Marcelo.
Mario Vargas Llosa and Isabel Preysler tonight have been accompanied by the presidents of the Spanish government Felipe González and José María Aznar, as well as some Latin American counterparts as Sebastian Pinera, Andrés Pastrana, Uribe and Luis Alberto Lacalle.
They have also attended the celebration other faces of Spanish politics, as Rosa Diez, Albert Rivera, Marta Rivera de la Cruz and Esperanza Aguirre; as well as journalists Juan Cruz, Boris Izaguirre, Federico Jimenez Losantos, Iñaki Gabilondo, Juan Luis Cebrian and President of EFE, Jose Antonio Vera.
The event was also attended by Minister of Industry and Tourism, José Manuel Soria, the US ambassador, James Costs and her husband, designer Michael Smith; and Mitzy Capriles, wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledesma.
Some of the guests at this celebration will also be the protagonists of the seminar will be held from Tuesday in the House of America. An event organized by the International Foundation for Freedom and Professor Mario Vargas Llosa, which will be opened by the Acting Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy.
During the party, guests have received as a gift the book "Ideas in freedom", a work that pays homage to Vargas Llosa through the pen of 80 authors whose original idea was born of Marcelino Elosua, founder and president of LID Editorial, responsible for editing the book.
Among the 80 participants in the book include Luis Maria Anson, Juan Luis Cebrian, Antonio Garrigues Walker, Arcadi Espada, Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros, Esperanza Aguirre, Alvaro Pombo, Carlos Rodríguez Braun or Mauricio Macri, among others.
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