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...Correspondent Piero Saporiti flew over the Andes for a first, fresh-eyed view of Peru, its economy and policies (see Progress to Prosperity in HEMISPHERE). While in Lima, Saporiti tried a dish called ceviche, which is popular in many Latin American countries. When he asked for the recipe, the cook said, "All you do is take a corvina [a black-finned fish] and leave it in lemon juice for three hours." Saporiti asked: "What next...
Peru's General Manuel Odria, onetime subdirector of his country's War College, held a soldierly reunion this week in Lima with Venezuela's Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, one of his best students back in the early '40s. Pérez Jiménez revisited Peru with the prestige of an old grad who made good: he is the dictatorial President of Venezuela (TIME, Feb. 28). Host Odria greeted him with easy confidence: he is the dictatorial President of Peru...
...coastal population in the 20th century and its mountain people still in the 16th? Yes, say the country's conservatives, who center around the so-called "Forty Families"-the old, cultured, inward-looking class who own the coastal haciendas and most of the businesses and industries of Lima. But in the '20s, a group of left-wingers at San Marcos University (which is 85 years older than Harvard) saw in the national division the makings of an extremist mass party. A silver-tongued intellectual named Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre thereupon founded a movement called...
...violently one Sunday at dawn in Callao, but were speedily put down by the army at a cost of 100 killed. The government promptly outlawed the party. Less than a month later, Odria, by then convinced of his mission, seized power in a military junta. Haya took asylum in Lima's Colombian Embassy, became the world's most celebrated refugee before Odria freed and exiled him last year (he now lives in Belgium...
Fresh from that success, the scientists proposed to start a school. The labor of Cruz and others, plus $4,000 worth of fixtures, glass and plumbing, raised a building that might have cost $75,000 or more in the U.S. Lima sent teachers, and Cruz's son went to classes; now, at 15, the boy runs a store of his own, selling soap, candles, flour and cigarettes. Other suggestions, planted with the mayorales, brought about a reforestation program, a new water system, training in the trades...