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...Prado y Ugarteche, 73, constitutional President of Peru, third largest nation in South America, was thrown out of office, just ten days short of completing his six-year term. The country's new rulers are a brassbound junta of "four Presidents," headed by a cavalry general, Manuel Perez Godoy, 59, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and including General Nicolas Lindley López, 53, commander of Peru's army; Vice Admiral Juan Francisco Torres Matos, 56, boss of the navy; and General Pedro Vargas Prada, 49, chief of the air force. They struck only four months...
...electoral results were officially certified, and the politicians had achieved a compromise in which the feared Haya would have only a minority voice in the government-that the military moved. In a last-minute appeal, Roman Catholic Primate Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts pleaded with General Perez Godoy: "In the name of our Holy Mother, the Church, I beg of you not to break the legal order." Answered Pérez Godoy: "It is too late. The prestige of the army is at stake." Twenty minutes later the tanks were at the palace...
...well to take away Peru's premium-priced U.S. sugar quota, amounting to $19 million a year. "A serious setback" to democracy, said President Kennedy, in an unusually vigorous White House statement. The generals were reported planning to send a mission to Washington to explain everything. Said Perez Godoy: "I know that President Kennedy can understand. What he wants in the Alliance is what we want...
...Horacio Godoy, a member of the faculty of law at the University of La Plata, was the only panelist to question seriously the value of nationalism. He admitted that two nationalistic forces are currently at work in Latin America, "National Marxism and the orthodox social Christian aims," but he stressed that neither has much chance of unifying the continent...
Speaking last, Amador differed with an assertion by Godoy that the Cuban problem is so complex that judgments on it are difficult. Quite clearly to all in the U.S., he said, the situation is simply one of invasion, both physically, with arms and money, and ideologically, by Russia...