Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed." The churches are addressing themselves in a dead language to situations and issues that no longer exist. "The ancient dogmas no longer dominate the imagination; the shape of life has changed; the patterns of truth are different; the questions have new terms; the doubts have deeper dimensions; the hunger of the heart and mind has been enlarged...
...Bolivia, Castro agents working out of the Cuban embassy hatched a plot with local Communists to overturn the government of Reformer-President Victor Paz Estenssoro with a "hunger march" on the capital by striking leftist tin miners. Forewarned, the Bolivian government declared a state of siege, rounded up the chief conspirators and called out a well-armed militia of nonstriking workers to block all roads into the capital. The march fizzled...
...Pernambuco, Brazil, where Castro agents are taking advantage of frightful poverty and hunger and an angry and miserable peasantry (two ranches and two big sugar plantations invaded in recent weeks, riots in the city of Recife), the situation was approaching open guerrilla action. President Jânio Quadros, long a let's-leave-Castro-alone man, had to fly in an infantry battalion from Rio to help local army units keep order. When troops raided a Peasant League headquarters in the neighboring state of Paraiba, they found 100 rifles, reportedly exported from Cuba, thousands of Portuguese translations of textbooks...
...population of the great cordillera of the Andes, which stretches 4,500 miles from Colombia to the southern tip of Chile, consists of some 15 million Indians and a handful of descendants of the Spanish conquistadors. The Indians work the land; the aristocracy owns it. Hunger-pinched, and with a life expectancy of 32 years, the Indians live in what amounts to medieval serfdom. Their circumstances show why agrarian reform is a popular cry throughout Latin America. Last week TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse visited a hacienda high in the Peruvian Andes. His report...
...colonos very well. They have no cause for complaint," says Luna's foreman. "If they want it," he says, "we even give them a daily ration of chicha and coca." Chicha is a crude corn whisky; coca is a mild narcotic leaf that deadens pain and kills hunger. Luna lets his peasants graze a limited number of livestock free (most hacendados charge one head for ten as a grazing fee). He also allots each family two acres of cropland on which to grow food-potatoes and corn, and in season turnips and cabbage...