At the end of the 1970's and the beginning of the 1980's, Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa compared the sandinista Nicaragua to the Fidel Castro's Cuba, renewing the debate about revolution and socialism in Latin America. This paper analyses Cortázar and Vargas Llosa's articles to demonstrate how they have understood and translated the sandinista experience. At the end of the 1970's, many intellectuals began to defend the sandinista Revolution as the possible ideal revolution or as a new chance to the socialist experience in the Latin America, and that was the case of Cortázar. Vargas Llosa, disappointed with the left, pointed out the regime's "mistakes" that might take the sandinista experience to turn Nicaragua into a "new Cuba".
Cortázar; Vargas Llosa; Sandinista Revolution; Cuban Revolution; Latin America