Word: arquitecto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandson of a former Minister of Finance and great-grandson of a former President, Belaunde went to school in Paris, got a master's degree in architecture from the University of Texas in 1935, then returned to Peru, where he designed private homes, started a magazine called El Arquitecto Peruano, and signed on as a government public-housing consultant. "I was interested in politics," he says, "but purely from the professional point of view." In 1945 he ran for the Chamber of Deputies, won a seat from Lima and quickly made a name for himself fighting for low-cost...
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