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...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...
...Evita's worldly fame was fading away, Perón took steps last week to settle her considerable fortune. To Europe, aboard an Argentine Airlines DC-6, he sent her brother Juan Duarte and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Héctor Cámpora. On arrival in Switzerland they were to transfer her international investments to the President's name. Under Argentine law, when a childless woman dies, all her property acquired after marriage must be divided between her parents and her husband. Duarte and Cámpora, however, carried with them-besides a power...
...Hearing rumblings of the plot, Mollinedo moved fast. In La Paz, he arrested most of M.N.R.'s underground general staff; he also captured rifles, submachine guns, ammunition, grenades and documents listing the rebel "government" that was to be headed by exiled M.N.R. Chieftain Víctor Paz Estenssoro...
Modern Talk. Now living in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Héctor Poleo hears so much talk of war that war has become an obsession. "I worry all the time. Everyone begin to talk about a new war. These people don't know the true war or else they have inhuman feelings for other people. I believe in a new system." When friends press him about it, he says doggedly: "I don't care about a name, but something have to came. My viewpoint is more than political...
...ctor Poleo argues better with his brush, going off to his studio in the early morning, there to paint for ten hours at a stretch, until he has covered canvas with grief and ruin and death...