Word: peru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First came a phalanx of women and children, and behind them the short, silent, barrel-chested men armed with slingshots, rusty rifles, and carrying Tierra o Muerte banners. Once again Peru's restless peasants were trying to chase landowners off their estates. The invasions have been going on for months, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has hesitated to intervene. But last week, when 8,000 peasants appeared at 14 haciendas near Cuzco in the southern highlands, troops drove them back in a pitched battle that left 17 dead, 32 wounded on both sides. Within hours, Bela...
...Peru's President was not acting from weakness but from new-found strength. For the first time since he took office six months ago, Belaúnde felt secure enough to deal swiftly and firmly with an explosive situation. Having won the presidency with only 40% of the popular vote, he has depended on the shaky support of the two major opposition parties in Congress. But in December municipal elections, his Acción Popular party won a clear majority throughout the country. And now with national sentiment on Belaúnde's side, the opposition has more...
Shapiro's analysis of Latin American problems centers around six case studies: Guatemala as the prototype of the paternalistic dictatorship, Peru as the conservative "democracy," Venezuela as the liberal democracy, Cuba as the revolutionary regime, Mexico as the post-revolutionary government, and Bolivia as the typical test case for the Alliance...
...Peru elected a liberal government last summer, after a military junta had ruled for a year. The U.S. is leary of the possibility that Peruvians may want to nationalize some of the rich oil industry now owned by U.S. companies...
...caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed a 1,235-lb. black marlin off Peru. And what does he do now? He lives in Florida, poking around the Keys after bonefish. "The toughest saltwater fish there is," says he, adding with a slight ahem that he has caught more than 1,000 in his lifetime...