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Even Indians who had the money often found no food to buy. In one of the worst-hit famine cities, 13,000-ft.-high Puno, 80 tons of grain was stolen from a warehouse. Not all the grain went to thieves. The Peruvian army fed at least 350 tons of barley to cavalry horses...
...condition of U.S. aid was that money made from selling food was to be spent on job-creating public works. At Puno, Point Four auditors found that the total of food-financed public works consisted of eight handsome houses, sold below cost to local big shots...
...railroad to bypass Lake Titicaca, where everything traveling between Peru's Pacific ports and La Paz must now be transshipped to and from a lake steamer. When the ceremonies were over, Paz Estenssoro and Odria signed a formal agreement to go ahead with the 115-mile Puno-Guaqui railroad. Said a Peruvian diplomat: "Peru and Bolivia look to me like Siamese brothers, joined by the Titicaca lake...
...Puno, on the Peruvian side of the lake, 2,000 garishly dressed Indians, many of them barefoot, were drinking and dancing in the biting cold. All around the town plaza shops did a roaring business selling chicha, cane alcohol or beer...
HARRY TSCHOPIK JR. Puno, Peru...