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...Russian role in Peru continues to worry Washington, even though Lima has taken a definite turn to the right in the past year. Peru is still $500 million in hock to Moscow, and Peruvian pilots have been receiving flight training in Cuba from Soviet advisers...
Chile, with 79,600 men under arms (v. 63,000 for the Peruvians), would be the underdog in any set-to with its northern neighbor, partly because it has found modern weapons almost impossible to buy. Reason: the U.S. and Britain have imposed tight embargoes on sales of arms to General Augusto Pinochet's regime because of its callous record on human rights. Although Chile has begun receiving about 50 American F-5E and A-37 warplanes, ordered before the embargo, they may not be a match for Peru's Russian-made Su-22s, especially if Soviet training...
Rich Deposits. The issue inflaming the Chilean and Peruvian nationalism, which is pulling the two countries to the brink of war, is possession of the Atacama Desert's rich deposits of copper, silver and nitrates. Peru lost the land to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Since then, Peruvian leaders occasionally have talked about regaining the lost territory, hinting that this would be accomplished by the war's centenary-now only two years away...
Some of the recent increase in bellicosity on both sides may reflect calculated attempts by both Chile's Pinochet and Peruvian President Francisco Morales Bermudez to take their countrymen's minds off the soaring inflation and unemployment that plague both nations. Yet the Peruvians' century-old bitter hatred toward their southern neighbors is real and runs deep. To this day, for example, misbehaving Peruvian children are disciplined with the threat: "You'll be given to the Chileans." The anti-Chilean mood has intensified with the approach of the centenary...
...morning after the party, Jenny had a request: would I help her write down the words to an American hit song she admired? Listening carefully for the first time to "Love Hurts," by Nazareth, I realize that it is powerful, thoughtfully-structured music. Peruvian girls are crazy about it. I cannot condemn this "cultural imperialism," if that's what it is, because it is perpetrated by the music I grew up on. Others might have been weaned on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, cello lessons and madrigal singing around the family piano, but I spent my Wonder Years humming...