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...Cost Money. Belaúnde poured money into education until, by this year, fully 25% of Peru's budget was being spent on schooling-probably the highest proportion for any country on the continent. He attempted agrarian reform and drew some 2,000,000 Peruvians, largely Indians, into Cooperación Popular projects for village improvement. Through it all, he traveled the country tirelessly...
Question of Priority. In his war against poverty, Belaúnde has set up cooperación popular, a self-help plan for rural Indian communities in which the government provides tools and technical advice and the Indians build roads and airstrips. But he has been able to make only a token start on his favorite project: a vast superhighway system across the Andes to open the fertile Amazon Valley to settlers...
Belaúnde's chief political rival, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 69, the fiery APRA patriarch who was edged out in the 1962 elections, dismisses cooperación popular as "an old Communist way of making people work-romantic but not practical." Many others -including U.S. Ambassador J. Wesley Jones-are impressed by Belaunde's vision. "Everything the President has suggested makes sense," says Jones. "The question is only where to put what on the scale of priority...
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