Word: peruvian
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...moment there is no alternative to a military government in Lima; and, as the success of the tank attack on the police indicated, the junta feels confident that it can effectively put down with brutal swiftness any challenge to its control. Still, with the Peruvian economy in trouble because of rocketing food prices and dwindling foreign loans, Velasco, who is seriously ailing with a circulatory disease, may now be inclined to consider retirement earlier rather than later...
...problem now is Brazil's highway-building program, which is lacing the vast Amazon region with roads, including the trans-Amazon highway stretching 2,843 miles from Recife on the Atlantic Coast to the Peruvian border...
Chile and Peru, however, could find themselves at war with each other. Both nations have been frantically modernizing their armed forces in the past year and have exchanged vitriolic verbal attacks over a border area in dispute since 1881. A Peruvian armored unit has been reported garrisoned just north of the Chilean border. All this may be nothing more than empty posturing, but observers warn that the rhetoric could create a momentum of its own, ending in hostilities...
...Some people may tremble when they hear what I will say," warned Peruvian President Juan Velasco Alvarado before delivering his independence day speech last week. No one in his audience was inclined to take the remark lightly. After six years of rule by Velasco's left-leaning military junta, Peruvians have learned that whatever the mercurial general says generally goes...
...land-owning cooperatives under the plan. Unlike Salvador Allende Gossens' ill-fated government in Chile, Peru managed to nationalize U.S. petroleum and copper companies without incurring American sanctions. The country, moreover, has enjoyed economic progress under military rule, with an annual growth rate of 5%, although countless Peruvian poor in the Lima slums still subsist outside the economy. Though some militant political parties are banned, Peruvians are allowed to belong to opposition parties and generally enjoy a wide range of civil liberties...