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...Bureau of Narcotics notified the Cuban Government that while Luciano was on the loose no more narcotics for medical use would be sent to Cuba; Lucky might get them and peddle them. Cuba's new Interior Minister Alfredo Pequeno got the point. He called in burly Benito Herrera, chief of the secret police, and told him to go get Lucky. At week's end Lucky Luciano, no war hero at all, was locked up and had an ultimatum: go back to Italy...
Juan Perón would not control Uruguay. That was the decision of one million Uruguayans in this week's national elections (TIME, Nov. 25). Tomás Berreta, 70-year-old vineyardist, had easily defeated Luis Alberto de Herrera, crusty pro-Perón nationalist and archenemy of continental solidarity with the U.S. It was more than a squeak-through: in the count Berreta took an early lead, led Herrera in a ratio of three...
...presidential aspirant. The leader of the Batllista faction, suntanned ex-farmer Tomás Berreta, 70, had the best chance to win. The Blanco (White) Party had dissidents, too, but for the moment they were united behind the presidential candidacy of tall, white-thatched Luis Alberto de Herrera, 73. Herrera, "last of the South American caudillos" ("chiefs"), had for 30 years given the Blancos their nationalistic, isolationist tone. Most of Herrera's support lay in the rocky-spined back country, where illiterates could recognize his familiar face on the illustrated ballots...
Owner of a big hacienda called "Chiclin," and once owner of La Crénica, the Vice President once kept three desks in his enormous office. His countrymen report that a caller might be addressed as follows: "Have you, Sir, come to see His Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, Vice President of Peru? Or have you come to see Señior Larco Herrera, Owner and Publisher of La Crénica? Or perhaps you have come to see Don Rafael Larco Herrera, Director and General Manager of Hacienda Chiclin." According to the answer, he would sit down...
...Excellency is a voluble and charming conversationalist, a good friend of the U.S. In Washington he was travelling "incognito, as a private citizen." (He complained that he could not buy new shoes; he had no coupon.) But when he saw President Roosevelt, Rafael Larco Herrera presumably stepped into one of his gaudier personalities...