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...wave of liberalism through the hemisphere," he remembers. "News filtered in to us of the university reform in Argentina, the fight in Cuba against Dictator Gerardo Machado, Guerrilla Augusto César Sandino's battle against U.S. Marines in Nicaragua, the opposition to the tyrant Augusto Leguia in Peru...
...except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia (1919-30), who borrowed heavily to build roads, improve sanitation and ease the lot of Peru's predominantly Indian population. Wide-girthed President Oscar Raimundo Benavides has continued this program with increased road building, industrial development, compulsory social insurance, severance...
...statement other big names came tumbling out into the open. In a few days other arms salesmen had dragged in: Edward of Wales (obstructing Curtiss-Wright sales to South America); Herbert Hoover (as an antidote for H. R. H.); President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez of Argentina; Juan Leguia, son of the late president of Peru; Brig. General Juan F. Azcarate Pino, military attaché of the Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia; an unnamed chef de cabinet of Brazil; an assorted handful of Chinese war lords. The inferences...
Your account of expatriated Juan Leguia's story of Peru was well introduced over his whiskey glass, but out of respect to wonderful little Peru and some of its blooded and true gentlemen (all of whom are proud of their Incan ancestors), you should have let it go as a drinking tale. Never could such a fanciful story help explain the many Latin American revolutions...
Your article was interesting-TIME always is -but remember that Peruvians who read it laughed, as did Juan Leguia himself, the fat and banished whiskey strainer...