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...recent Sunday in Lima, a mob of swarthy, high-cheekboned workers crowded into the courtyard of an old two-story building called "The House of the People." In a carnival mood, the workers guffawed at puppet shows, consumed bowls of guinea-pig soup and bottles of rotgut pisco brandy sold at kiosks emblazoned with the initials of the political party hosting the blowout-APRA. By such homespun come-ons, Peru's American Revolutionary Popular Alliance was busily laying the groundwork last week for the 1962 presidential election-and what the movement thinks is its best opportunity to rule...
...brain trust, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, last week lectured 5,000 Red Chinese in Peking on how the Marxist blessings of Castro Cuba can be carried to country after country throughout the rest of Latin America. "It is," he said coldly, "through arming the people and smashing the puppet dictatorial regimes." In Washington a high U.S. official dealing with Latin America took a look at the endless crises besetting the hemisphere's governments and likened the situation to a "mountain of sugar melting under a fire hose...
Noisy Abroad. What Castro does get is assistance in his propaganda war against "Yankee imperialism." In Washington last year, President López Mateos called the Cuban revolution nationalist nonCommunist. Eight months later, when Cuba's touring puppet President turned up in Mexico after having been rebuffed en route by Argentina's President Frondizi and Venezuela's Betancourt, López Mateos went down to the airport, gave him a warm abrazo and a warm word: "We are linked to Cuba by similar aspirations for justice." At the Organization of American States' San José meeting...
Truncated Puppet. Frenchmen peered hopefully through the glorious opacity of De Gaulle's prose to see whether his rocket promised to go into orbit-or to fizzle. So far, the signs were not encouraging...
...Tunis a rebel spokesman said flatly: "We will have nothing to do with a truncated puppet state. We have made this point of view abundantly clear." In Algiers, Europeans crowding bars and cafes spoke freely of mass insurrection should De Gaulle seriously try to set up a Moslem Deputy Commissioner. Rumors spread that the police, in the event of an uprising, would throw a cordon around the city and starve it into submission. Sneered an ultra leader: "De Gaulle wants to turn Algiers into a second Budapest...