Word: andean
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...Prevent a Rout. Said Lleras: "I want to make it quite clear that I do not consider you bound to help in the economic development of any part of the world." Nonetheless, he thought that only foreign aid could assure his coffee-growing Andean country of 14 million of "a decisive stake in the material civilization of the West," preventing "a retreat, a rout, a historical disaster." What kind of help? Latin America is asking only for loans, and guarantees "restitution to the American taxpayer." But aid lending "is fundamentally a political act that cannot be judged by traditional banking...
...most hated man in Peru," says Premier Pedro Beltrán, 63, and perhaps he is right. In an Andean country where the bulk of the people are impoverished Indians, Beltrán is a rich capitalist, a conquistador-descended aristocrat...
...Argentina's Andean resort of San Carlos de Bariloche, snow came late this year, but when it finally fell, it was a skier's dream-3-ft. base. 2 in. of powder, and fresh snow at night to top it off. Last week the biggest crowds in history were strapping skis together in Buenos Aires and bracing themselves for a clattery two days on the train or six hours on a plane for their share of Christies. In Bolivia, young skiers jammed into the two lodges at the three-mile-high Chacaltaya ski area. But nowhere...
...latifundista political power often obscures the fact that a country may have excellent virgin farmlands available. Ecuador spent its public funds not for expropriating land but for building 1,600 miles of roads to open up the hot coastal plains. A thousand persons still own 80% of the cool Andean valleys, but peasants on free, 124-acre coastal plots are enjoying a boom that raised agricultural income 43% in seven years...
Presidential Remodeling. The ironic upshot is that Congress bickers impotently, and President Lleras is free to rebuild Colombia. He sent peacemaking commissions into the hinterland to patch up Liberal-Conservative feuds. Where the fighting had degenerated into nonpolitical banditry, he used troops. By last week only the coffee-rich Andean department of Caldas remained to be pacified...