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Sprawled in a volcanic valley of the Andean foothills, Arequipa is the traditional hotbed of Peruvian rebellion. Two years ago the military coup which hoisted General Manuel Odría into the presidency started in an Arequipa barracks. Last week another revolutionary struggle briefly shook the town; it was a civilian assault on Odría's militaristic regime...
...investigation of "a plot to sow confusion and dissension." Next day the federal judge charged with the investigation denounced the plot as a phony, ordered the rest of the suspects freed. Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo hurriedly departed for a few weeks' rest in Argentina's beautiful Andean lakes region...
...performance is all the more sensational when his diet is taken into account. He eats two meals a day-potatoes, corn, quinoa (all first domesticated by Andean Indians) and, very rarely, guinea pig. Andes men seldom get enough to eat; many chew coca leaves to help dull their hunger...
...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...Quechua and Aymara of the Incas, play their mournful five-noted pipes of Pan and on festive occasions get falling drunk on tinka, a poisonous potion of cane alcohol, nicotine and cocaine. But the pressure for land has increased, and the ancient farming ayllus (communes) are disappearing. More & more, Andean man has hired out to haciendas or mines, or moved to coastal cities. When he descends to the Pacific, it becomes his turn to undergo the rigors of adaptation, and the experience is often too much for him. Partly for this reason, Lima and Callao have one of the world...