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Pisco, a powerful grape brandy, is a Peruvian national institution. Haughty hacendados and barefoot Indian peasants swig it at births and wakes; special bottles are kept tucked away for anniversaries and visits from old friends. Its type and flavor depend largely on the grapes from which it is made; Peruvians say they can tell something about a man's character by the type he orders...
...Peru, as in nine other Latin American countries, capital punishment has long been outlawed. The last Peruvian to suffer the death penalty was a bandit executed by a firing squad in Cajamarca 42 years ago. Last week the Peruvian military junta restored the death penalty for murder, treason and any homicidal action which might "endanger the lives of large numbers of people." Dictator-President Manuel Odria's decree was an obvious warning to the outlawed APRA party: any homicidal action against the junta would endanger many a life...
Food for Thought. Peruvians are the world's No. 1 producers of crude cocaine, and also among its foremost users. Their country has an overabundance of coca leaves, from which the white-crystalline-powdered drug is refined. In the highland valleys of the Peruvian Andes, the green coca plants-stretch out for miles in cultivated fields, like wheat in Kansas. Use of the drug got its start after the Spanish conquest, when Peruvian Indians began chewing coca to offset the hunger and fatigue they suffered under their new masters. Later, miners took to chewing it to last out their...
...immediate trial of seven Apristas who had been indicted for Grana's murder. When the trial opened last fortnight, it was clear at once that the whole Aprista party-including Haya-was really on trial for Grana's death. "Flushed by a dead man!" cried a Peruvian last week on hearing that Haya had turned up at the Embassy...
...When the Peruvian government of President José Luis Bustamante was overthrown last October, Daniels lost little time in applying Resolution 35. When the U.S. recognized the military regime of General Manuel Odria, militarists up & down the hemisphere figured that they had a green light. Three days later, the Venezuelan army ousted President Rómulo Gallegos. Chile had already squelched a military plot; Costa Rica was now invaded from Nicaragua. Last week, Guatemala's liberal government was on the alert for a new move-the second in three weeks-by the military. In neighboring El Salvador, military...