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...criollos, who make up a mere 15% of the country's 4,000,000 people, no longer traffic in serfs, and most Indians have their own plot of land. Yet, on the 12,000-ft. Andean plateau, where 75% of Bolivians live, the peasants still sleep on dried llama fetuses to cure what ails them, still subsist mainly on dried potatoes. The U.S. put great store in President Victor Paz Estenssoro, who made a start at bringing his country into the 20th century, but was so heavy-handed about it that he was overthrown by a military coup last...
...average family's ten or eleven children, only four or five survive infancy. Life centers around the mud-brick cook hut where feeble fires of roots, sticks and llama dung struggle in the thin air. Indians who make it through childhood live to an average age of 32-without taking a bath, without taking a pill, without sleeping on a real bed. Most are solemn and docile, apparently cowed by their environment, except when there is an excuse for a fiesta and they can gulp caña (a potent, sugar-based liquor). Then, a missionary says, "a young...
...derby, but the customers get most of the others. Written by Jack Rose and directed by Daniel Mann, Action is not the merriest oatsmobile that ever came down the track, but Dean and Lana make a surprisingly smooth entry; Paul Ford is hilarious as a birdbrained, spaniel-eyed, llama-lipped pony player; and Walter Matthau has his moments as the big hairball who runs the syndicate-among them the deathless moment when, with a casual flick of his manicured fingers, he announces superbly: "Give dis genulman eighteen tousan' dolluhs fum petty cash." The whole cast obviously enjoyed making...
...caution was justified not only that first night, but throughout the week that followed. Peru's 144 provinces are divided into 1,500 governing districts, half of them so remote that there is no road to the outside world. As the returns trickled in by horse, burro, llama and boat, each party and every major newspaper interpreted them to suit its fancy...
...Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swineherd from western Spain, captured the Inca emperor by trickery, and had him strangled. Within a decade the bridges were tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the richer lands of the Andean foothills into immense haciendas worked by Indian peasants held virtually as slaves. Today, while Peru exports cotton, sugar, silver and copper, it must import food to maintain even a marginal existence for the bulk of its 10 million people. Half the population is illiterate; undernourished children...