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Recently, Velasco, 64, has shown signs of being too sensitive for words -the words of an independent press, that is. In June, he closed down Lima's most respected weekly magazine, Caretas, and drove its publisher into hiding. The reason: the magazine had taken issue with the government's view that a luncheon attended by several prominent editors was a subversive gathering. Said Velasco, justifying his action: "The magazine called us paranoid, said we were crazy...
Last week Velasco's regime struck again, this time expropriating Lima's five remaining independent newspapers. In predawn raids, police carrying submachine guns invaded the newsrooms of the papers, including Peru's oldest and most prestigious daily, El Comercio, and pulled the front and editorial pages off the presses. Then the government's own hand-picked editors, who had followed the police onto the premises, proceeded to pull freshly minted editorials from their pockets proclaiming the takeover as "a new day of freedom...
...under the plan. Unlike Salvador Allende Gossens' ill-fated government in Chile, Peru managed to nationalize U.S. petroleum and copper companies without incurring American sanctions. The country, moreover, has enjoyed economic progress under military rule, with an annual growth rate of 5%, although countless Peruvian poor in the Lima slums still subsist outside the economy. Though some militant political parties are banned, Peruvians are allowed to belong to opposition parties and generally enjoy a wide range of civil liberties...
...dictatorial, perhaps because he believes that is the only way to survive against his reactionary enemies among the rich and his liberal critics in the navy. His cavalier actions could be as defensive as they are offensive. Yet his mounting intolerance to criticism has many Peruvians worried, causing one Lima journalist to comment last week: "What you are seeing is the emergence of a caudillo...
...South American writers a new self-confidence. While he remains a grand old anti-fascist liberal, most writers of subsequent generations have been more or less socialist. Some, like Pablo Neruda, put their life and art wholly at the command of the movement they support; some, like Jose Lezama Lima in Cuba, have differed with the revolutionists after giving them initial support; some, like Garcia Marquez, have kept away from direct political action yet still have served revolution in their writing...