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When her asthmatic little boy Ernesto ("Che") Guevara grew up to be at 33 the Marxist mastermind of Fidel Castro's government in Havana, Celia de la Serna de Guevara was as proud as a mamma could be, particularly a Communist mamma. At home in Argentina, Celia has long been an all-wool Communist herself, but hampered by individualistic tendencies. She often ate with a pistol on the table, and, before she separated from Ernesto Sr.. sometimes used the weapon to threaten her husband, whose policies were only parlor pink. Somehow the leaders of Argentine Communism never...
Bobbing Bodies. The opposition has become emboldened. Eighteen months ago, guerrillas aided by Cuba's Fidel Castro invaded Paraguay from Argentina, but Stroessner's army beat them off, and machete-chopped corpses of rebels were soon bobbing down the Parana River. Today new bands of anti-Stroessner rebels reportedly stalk Stroessner from behind the laxly guarded Brazilian frontier. Last March the entire town of General E. Aquino-along with its Stroessner-appointed mayor-rose up in revolt, and had to be cowed by army bullets. Three died, 100 were arrested. During Independence celebrations last May, 2,000 students...
Venezuela would probably join an anti-Castro move. In Central America, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras would prove no problem. Argentina and Peru most likely could be counted on. But the huge, increasingly powerful nation of Brazil-the Brazil of Janio Quadros-was a bigger question mark than ever. For 44-year-old President Quadros, after a whirlwind five months in office, has proved that he is nobody's cup of coffee except, possibly, Brazil...
...With soil so rich that almost any crop will grow, Brazil is potentially one of the world's greatest agricultural nations. It exports cognac, champagne and wine to Argentina, the U.S. and Europe-including 30 million liters last year to France. It is the world's No. 1 producer and exporter of coffee, ranks seventh in soybeans and rice; sixth in tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts; fifth in jute; fourth in tobacco and cotton; second in sisal, cane sugar, cacao, corn, oranges. Yet its agricultural technology is primitive and its export potentiality (it grows more bananas and pineapple...
Died. John Perona, 64, improbable arbiter of international café society, an Italian peasant's son who emigrated to Manhattan as a 17-year-old bus boy (via Argentina, where he worked as Heavyweight Luis Firpo's sparring partner), later for three decades operated the city's most caste-conscious nightclub, El Morocco; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan...