Word: nde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forward is the course of Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 52, President of Peru and the man who in the past 19 months has captured the imagination of his people as no one before. He is an aristocrat, a member of one of Peru's older and wealthier families. Were it not for the force of circumstance, he would probably still be just a successful Lima architect. His political enemies call him an adventurer, a buccaneer, a demagogue. In his messianic public oratory, he has at times approached the emotional level of a Fidel Castro. But the revolution that...
...with inflationary troubles in the best-fed nation in Latin America; and Brazil's Humberto Castello Branco seems to be starting his gigantic country back toward order after toppling a ruinous leftist regime. But there is genuine excitement in Peru. What is going on there under Belaúnde lights a path ahead for the entire spiny west coast of South America from Colombia to Chile...
...conquistadores, whose 45 million descendants have always lived in mutually exclusive societies: the white Spanish minority that owns the wealth and the hopeless, anonymous Indian and half-breed majority that exists in squalid slums or labors on Andean haciendas. "In the sweep of all its history," says Belaúnde, "our land has been the theater of endless bloody struggles. And always there remained great gulfs between the conquerors and the conquered...
Creeping inflation is a specter. Last year Peru's cost of living edged up 11 % -still small by Latin American standards, but considerably higher than the 1963 rate. This year, Belaúnde's budget is set at $1.1 billion, 45% more than his budget in 1964. To help pay the freight, Belaúnde has raised import and mining taxes, tightened collections and cracked down on tax dodgers. The result has been a 60% jump in tax revenues. Yet his budget deficit is projected at $80 million this year-up 10% from 1964-and brings dour predictions...
...Busy Building. While Belaúnde builds, Communism tries to tear him clown. Each week, Moscow, Peking and Havana beam 110 hours of short-wave hate into Peru and the other west-coast nations. The broadcasts, in Spanish and Quechua, urge the Indians to take up their slingshots to "exterminate the capitalist wolves." From time to time, a few Red-led bands have invaded highland haciendas and stirred trouble in the mines. But the Communists are few and out of date in Peru. The country is too busy working on Fernando Belaúnde's Peruvian architecture...