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...progress, mostly by foot, continued to Guatemala in December 1953. The country was then controlled by the Communists around President Jacobo Arbenz, and was a natural haven for Latin American leftists of all degrees. Che fitted right in. His closest friend was a plump, almond-eyed young Peruvian girl named Hilda Gadea, an ardent, exiled member of Apra, Peru's leftist revolutionary movement. Hilda lent Che money to pay his room rent, kept him fed. For a while he peddled encyclopedias, then got a minor job in Guatemala's agrarian-reform program...
...willing to side with the U.S. against him. Among workers, peasants and students in Latin America, Castro is still regarded as a legendary hill fighter against tyranny. His professions of land reform and his pulling Uncle Sam's beard made him still more popular. As one Peruvian worker put it: "The gringos don't want to see Latin countries shake themselves free of their claws. That's why they're trying to topple Castro...
...Doctor Vincent A. Beláunde, Peruvian diplomat, president, U.N. General Assembly LL.D...
Hardened Sol. By the end of 1959, after eight months in office, Beltrán had written an impressive record. He repaid a Peruvian debt of $14.5 million to the International Monetary Fund. Foreign exchange reserves climbed to $11 million. Exports topped imports by nearly $25 million. The sol hardened...
...last July, but the rate dropped to 3% at year's end. But this achievement means little to the 50% of Peru's 10 million population who are outside the money economy or clinging to its fringes (average per capita income: $123 a year). Every second Peruvian is illiterate; 72% of the population is underfed. Tens of millions of acres of coastal desert could turn green under irrigation, but so far only 1.3 million acres are producing...