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...spacious marble and granite palace on Lima's Plaza de Armas, Peru's leftist soldier-President, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, last week smilingly accepted the credentials of a tall, bearded diplomat named Antonio Núñez Jiménez. The new ambassador was a Cuban, the first from his country to take up residence in Lima since Peru broke off relations in 1960. The arrival of Núñez in Peru, which struggled with Cuban-supported, revolutionaries through much of the 1960s, was another sign of the increasing acceptance that Fidel Castro's regime...
...President had specifically denied that Connally would "undertake a permanent Government assignment," speculation continued that he was being groomed for Secretary of State or Vice President-without any real evidence. In Latin America, there were warm talks with Argentine President Alejandro Agustin Lanusse and Peruvian dictator Juan Velasco Alvarado, but nothing concrete seemed to come out of the discussions. The inconclusive pattern continued in Australia and New Zealand. One Australian Minister called Connally a "high-powered Averell Harriman, only more impressive." Diplomats in Washington say he has proved to be a shrewd observer and called his mission a success...
...Lima to protest both social injustice from the far right and suppression of freedoms from the left. His targets have included the leftist military regime that came to power in 1968. Though Beltrán's criticism has been relatively mild, the government of President Juan Velasco Alvarado is forcing him to give up his paper...
Peru: Soldier in the Saddle "We are building for our children. There will be difficulties, there will be problems. But our revolution cannot stop." So said Peruvian President Juan Velasco Alvarado in October 1968 after he and his fellow generals ousted the civilian government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry...
Start Walking. Up to now, the "revolutionary" dictatorships of the left have been careful to avoid even the suggestion of kinship with the Communist world. "This is a nationalist, popular and Christian revolution," said Peru's President Juan Velasco Alvarado in a Lima speech marking the second anniversary of the military coup that toppled Belaúnde. "We are trying to find for the problems of Peru solutions derived from Peruvian reality." There is evidence too that the Soviets are being wary about writing mortgages on some of the new political experiments. One story has it that last fall...