Word: peruvian
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...land; the aristocracy owns it. Hunger-pinched, and with a life expectancy of 32 years, the Indians live in what amounts to medieval serfdom. Their circumstances show why agrarian reform is a popular cry throughout Latin America. Last week TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse visited a hacienda high in the Peruvian Andes. His report...
...assets (now $117 million) in sugar land. Last week, mainland-born (Oregon) MacNaughton announced that C. & C. had completed arrangements to take over Dole Pineapple and Bumble Bee Brand Seafoods. Next MacNaughton targets: to decide whether to take up a Castle & Cooke option on 125,000 acres of Peruvian timberland, buy more food companies, get listed on the New York Stock Exchange
...lost itself many amigos in sensitive Latin America. It shocked others by appearing weak in the face of a small Caribbean dictator and appalled everyone by being both indiscreet and ineffective. "If that is the kind of assistance we may expect in our fight with Communism," said a Peruvian journalist, "then it's high time we stopped being anti-Communist...
Keeping Them Busy. Of the 100,000 tons of foodstuffs, only a fraction apparently reached the hungry people. At one point, 38,000 tons of food piled up in Peruvian ports, much of it rotting for lack of transport. Only a few hundred tons daily made its way up to the hills. Vast quantities were bought up by fast operators, who resold it to better-fed lowland folk at bargain prices. This maneuver was facilitated by the Peruvian government's decision to sell the food. The idea of charging a small sum, as one Peruvian explained at the time...
Even Indians who had the money often found no food to buy. In one of the worst-hit famine cities, 13,000-ft.-high Puno, 80 tons of grain was stolen from a warehouse. Not all the grain went to thieves. The Peruvian army fed at least 350 tons of barley to cavalry horses...