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...mood of the crowd. Then he made a quick decision: the candidate for mayor put up by his ruling center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (A.P.R.A.) needed help. The limo wheeled around and headed back to the presidential palace half a mile away. Bucking a tradition that has kept Peruvian chief executives aloof from local elections, President Alan Garcia Perez, 37, thereupon ordered microphones and a TV camera installed on a balcony so that he could "spontaneously" welcome a crowd of 50,000 A.P.R.A. supporters at the palace two nights later...
...election results represented a vote of confidence for Garcia's handling of the Peruvian economy. At his inauguration in July 1985, Garcia vowed that he would allot no more than 10% of export earnings for repayment of the country's $14.2 billion foreign debt. The strategy led a year later to a cutoff of loans from the International Monetary Fund and the accumulation of $630 million in unpaid interest owed to U.S. banks. But it has also allowed Garcia to reduce inflation from 184% just before he took office to 59% currently and to increase wages by an average...
...prison near Lima on June 18. At least 124 inmates died in the operation, including those killed after the prisoners had ended their resistance. Declared the President: "What happened after the surrender in Lurigancho is a crime that I will not silence." While condemning the police, Garcia strongly defended Peruvian marines who attacked another prison, on the island of El Fronton, where as many as 270 Shining Path disciples died...
...other hand, consuming American pop is not necessarily a kind of pro- Americanism. The Rambo look is all the rage among guerrillas in Beirut. The Sandinistas are American baseball nuts. Says Peruvian Writer Augusto Ortiz de Zevallos: "You see Marxist-Leninists with T shirts that say COCA-COLA." In the view of Marc Pachter, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, foreigners may turn to the left precisely because they like American pop so much. At least in Europe, argues Pachter, youthful political anti-Americanism is a way of "justifying their enormous thirst for American pop culture. As long as they...
...others, fine photographs of ruins and landscape open up a continent containing much that is wondrous. But throughout the panels are pictures that capture single events: a group surrounding a Santiago evangelist, a Peruvian dwarf, a religious procession...