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“I could read on their faces they were thinking, ‘Are we making the right decision with someone who doesn’t genuinely love our father’s legacy already?’” the actor recalls.

"When we were growing up he wanted to be a policeman. That was his dream. But that never happened because, when our father passed away, he had to become the head of the family."

“We’re deeply grateful that NBC Sports had the vision to honor our father’s legacy in such a meaningful way,” Silvia Joyce and Silvia-Koonin stated.

“It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by his family,” read a letter signed by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana and posted by Álvaro on X.

“Every decision we make revolves around our father. Moving him from place to place, with a broken wheelchair, destroyed roads, the high cost of transportation — it’s difficult on all of us,” she said.