Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, center left with sun glasses and blue shirt, stands next ruling to Popular Party leader in Catalonia Xavier Garcia Albiol, with white shirt and a Spanish flag around his neck, and other politicians as they lead a march to protest the Catalan government’s push for secession from the rest of Spain in downtown Barcelona, Spain, Sunday Oct. 8, 2017. Sunday’s rally comes a week after separatist leaders of the Catalan government held a referendum on secession that Spain’s top court had suspended and the Spanish government said was illegal.(AP Photo/Francisco Seco)