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Lords of Upheaval. Called Viotá and Sumapaz, the two Red enclaves of backlands Bolshevism in Colombia have been in existence for years, making trouble for democracy in Latin America long before anyone heard of Fidel Castro. The rugged, roadless terrain offers little hindrance to guerrilla movements, while effectively blunting any military reprisal or concerted government program of building and social reform that might dilute Communist influence on the peasantry...
...Phoumi's call a flurry of local army commanders hurried in to consult. Beating time to reedy pipe music as he presided over a table laden with Scotch whisky and French wines, Phoumi assured a reporter that his troops were racing the Pathet Lao Communists through the roadless jungle to the capital, added earnestly: "If you let the Pathet Lao into the government, they will organize and work hard and sooner or later they will control the whole country...
Over the Andes. A dozen years ago the Summer Institute of Linguistics got the idea of flying its missionaries into Peru's roadless interior, used a wartime Grumman Duck piloted by U.S. Missionary Pilot Betty Green. The case for taking to the air was overwhelmingly proved; five hours of flying covered as much space as eight weeks of canoeing in crocodile-infested rivers past hostile Indians. Now S.I.L. operates twelve planes, well worn but carefully maintained, ranging from a Piper Super Cub (one passenger) to a Catalina (19). Almost all were donated by individuals or religious groups...
...during which six governments tumbled and two election attempts failed. Mild-mannered Dr. François Duvalier swept the countryside, rolled over the city majorities won by Planter Louis Déjoie, and emerged with 71% of the 950,000 votes cast. Some fraud was unquestionably committed; e.g., primitive, roadless La Gonave Island, with 13,300 voters in 1950, reported 18,941 Duvalier ballots to 463 for Déjoie. A hard-working doctor who has spent years working to eliminate yaws in Haiti's backlands, Duvalier announced that he would promptly ask for a U.S. fiscal expert...
...soon thought of the rugged Rif mountains, which form a natural barrier between North and South Morocco and until last year marked the boundary between the French and Spanish zones of occupation. Following the classic policy of divide and rule, the two occupying powers had left the central Rif roadless and virtually impassable. One thing Morocco could do, decided Ben Barka, was to build a road through...