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Until last year, the downtown district and the tax base of Lima, Ohio (pop. 55,000), were disappearing at approximately the same rate. The bus sys tem had broken down, the turreted old railway station was closed, and the streets were full of potholes...
...interest runs much deeper than that as more and more people are studying Spanish and general Latin American history. A new generation of American wanderers, turning to the south to expend their wanderlust in place of the traditional Europe, travel not only to Santiago but also to Quito and Lima, to the Brazilian northwest and the Andean highlands. American students talk not only of Allende but also of Peron and Echevarria...
...cocoa leaves and eat dried potatoes like their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Ill-clad Indian children sell two joints of marijuana for ten cents behind the 35-story Hilton Hotel in downtown Bogota, Columbia, and recently-arrived mothers from the mountains beg in the shopping district of Lima, Peru, so their children...
Streets dividing neighborhoods in Bogota and Lima are lines dividing past and present, and the peasants migrating from the countryside to live in the poblaciones or favelas that surround these cities are re-enacting the demographic changes of 18th century England, when displaced weavers and field laborers streamed into Manchester, Birmingham and London. The crooked spines of the early factory workers are recapitulated in the stooped backs of the Bolivian peasants who carry huge baskets of oranges on their backs. The small farmers of Yorkshire forced off their lands by acquisitive members of the gentry are resurrected in the masses...
...last elections in 1958, and this time nobody's taking any chances. The trouble is that the office of finance in headquarters [Langley, Va.] couldn't get enough Chilean escudos from the New York banks; so they had to set up regional purchasing offices in Lima and Rio. But even these offices can't satisfy the requirement, so we have been asked to help." The results were gratifying. Frei won with 56% of the vote, and the future of Chile seemed to be assured...