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...sandfly is extremely vulnerable to DDT. When the rainy season ends in June, Peru will launch an intensive DDT attack in a test area. It will be none too soon; verruga, long unknown outside of Peru, seems to be spreading. Since 1939 outbreaks have been reported in Colombia and Ecuador...
Last week, the balsa was almost ready to sail. Named the Kon-Tiki after a Peruvian god, she is 40 ft. long, 18 ft. wide, built of buoyant balsa wood logs cut in the jungles of Ecuador. There is no metal in her; all parts are lashed together with ropes, as the ancient Peruvians...
...riding from the great Portuguese rejoneador, Ruy da Camara. He taught her also the bullfighting art, first in Peru, later in Portugal, where she appeared in a ring at twelve. For eight years now she has fought in the big time-in Spain and Portugal, in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru...
...Shell workers' union's General Secretary Guillermo Alarcon: "We must be optimistic that future drillings will produce exploitable oil and the company will be able to maintain at least the present number of workers."* Still more cheerful were those who said: "Shell has been withdrawing from Ecuador since it came here ten years...
...were fired, Ecuador's social laws would force Shell to pay out more than 1,000,000 sucres ($78,750) in severance...