* Congressman Olivera, the leader of the FIM (Frente Independiente Moralizador: Independent Front for Morality), did not belong to the Democratic Front nor did he support my candidacy.
* An absurdist literary movement, contemporary with existentialism, which flourished in Paris in the 1950s. Many of its efforts to deflate pretentiousness of all sorts depended on outrageous parody. (Trans. note)
* El diablo en campaña, pp. 195–204.
* “Una visita a Lurigancho,” in Contra viento y marea, II (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1983).
* Friedrich Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), vol. 1, p. 107.