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Because three fingers of his left hand have been shot off, that hand is often clenched Napoleon-like behind the back of Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, hard-featured, short-statured leader of the Peruvian revolution which made...
Since the Hoover cannonade, epochal changes have come upon Peru. In the purses of her citizens are no more libras (Peruvian "pounds") but shiny new soles (Peruvian "suns"*). For the first time in two generations Peru is on friendly terms with Chile, due to the Tacna-Arica accord (TIME, May 27, 1929) negotiated under President Hoover by the late U.S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore whom President Coolidge sent to Peru...
Perhaps if peace had not been made with Chile, the Peruvian revolution (TIME, Sept. 1) would have not occurred. Officers of the Peruvian army, having for the first time in their lives no foreign foe to worry about, staged a coup and deposed President Augusto Bernardino Leguia, famed "Bantam Roosevelt of Peru...
After a through examination, during which, the commission is to be provided with a large local staff and the power to investigate the inner workings of the Peruvian government, it will submit a bill to the congress detailing the recommended reorganization...
...Peruvian Indians did not know the pharmacology of quinine. But they did know that the bark of a certain tree, from which quinine is derived, cured their malaria. They told their lore to a friendly magistrate, Juan Lopez Canizares, when in 1630 he developed the disease. He passed the information to Countess of Chinchon, wife of Peru's then viceroy, when she fell victim. It was after her that the cinchona tree and its quinine derivatives was named...