Fundação Getúlio Vargas Fundação Getúlio Vargas Fundação Getúlio Vargas ("Getulio Vargas Foundation", often abbreviated as FGV) is a Brazilian higher education institution and think tank founded on December 20, 1944, with a mission "To stimulate Brazil’s socioeconomic development". Its initial objective was to prepare qualified people to work in public and private administration in Brazil. FGV is considered by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the "University of Pennsylvania" as top think tank in Latin America, best managed think tank worldwide and seventh best think tank in the world. FGV offers undergraduate programs, graduate & MBA programs, as well as Master's
Mario Vargas Llosa part in the Peruvian general election, 2011 by saying he was going to vote for Alejandro Toledo (Peruvian former president 2001–2006). After casting his vote, he said his country should stay in the path of legality and freedom. Vargas Llosa joined the Mont Pelerin Society in 2014. He is also a member of Washington, D.C. based think tank, the Inter-American Dialogue. As for hobbies, Vargas Llosa is very fond of association football, and is a renowned supporter of Universitario de Deportes. The writer himself has confessed in his book "A Fish in the Water" since childhood he has been a