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...year he was performing at a theater called the Bim-Bam-Bum in Santiago, Chile. Performances followed throughout South America until his success brought him to New York last fall. He now has offers of nightclub contracts in Chicago and California and is developing a whole new bouquet of New York sounds...
...population; of the total, 1,500,000 exist in what Mexicans call the "belt of misery" ringing the city. Lima's slums have grown from a handful of miserables to a city-within-a-city of 400,000. Ten years ago, Santiago, Chile, counted 32,000 slum dwellers; today it has 200,000. The swelling shack towns that overlook Caracas' gleaming skyscrapers hold a quarter of a million people. Slums are worst in the capitals, but they grow almost as fast in secondary towns. All told, an estimated 40 million of Latin America's 200 million people...
...Mushroom & the Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
Begging for the Scraps. For all the squalor, few slum dwellers would return to the farm. Back home in Chile's Andean highlands Alberto Paredes, 26. earned 25? a day working on a hacienda "with only the wind and the animals." Today in Santiago he makes $1.50 a day as a construction helper. "Here I have a radio," says Paredes. A Peruvian mountain couple, German and Aurelia Ortega, are stuck in El Monton (The Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made...
...Those who still maintain relations with Castro: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...