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...emphasize the hopeful side of the continent's recent history. However, his optimism looks not to the past, but the future. The book takes the reader along an imaginary road, five thousand miles along-a crescent along the fringes of the Amazon watershed. The road was sketched out by Peruvian President Belaunde, for whom it was part of a vision of a prosperous, developed core of a continent that would have freed itself of social turmoil. The reader can only hope that Kandell's vision, like Belaunde's, can be realized...
Groups of up to 150 people began to gather ominously in the Plaza Dos de Mayo in downtown Lima last Thursday at the headquarters of various left-wing political and union organizers. Over loudspeakers, union leaders exhorted the crowds with revolutionary slogans. Leaflets passed out by the Peruvian Communist Party protested hunger and misery and stated the party's demands for job stability and the control of fuel and food prices. In one shantytown south of the city, small bands of youths flung rocks at bus windows. Almost all of Peru's privately owned buses stayed...
...police pointed their shotguns at drivers of trucks with space available who tried to ignore workers seeking rides. Youths who were spotted trying to collect rocks or debris were chased, beaten with nightsticks and sometimes shoved into police vans. Jorge del Prado, 73, a senator and leader of the Peruvian Communist Party, was struck in the chest by a tear-gas canister fired at close range. Despite the numerous clashes around the country however, the day's toll was miraculously low: none dead and about 50 injured, few seriously...
...copper and lead exports. Belaúnde further undermined the economy by borrowing excessively from other countries and failing to curb money-losing state enterprises. The gross domestic product declined 12% last year, the worst performance in Latin America. Inflation hit 125%, unemployment 8.3% and underemployment 51%. The Peruvian sol declined 130% against the dollar during 1983. The country's foreign debt is $13 billion, about two-thirds of its gross domestic production. Belaúnde put Peru on the austerity program in 1982, but so far he has resisted pressure from the International Monetary Fund for a major...
...badly defeated by leftists in last November's municipal elections. Yet even with the economy collapsing around him and bombs going off regularly, Belaúnde's remains ever optimistic. "I have great faith in the future of Peru," he says. Still, for the architect of Peruvian democracy, his final months in office could be long ones...