Word: cuzco
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...government claims that they are financed by Cuba and Red China. The bands are led by Luis de la Puente, a wily, pro-Castro attorney who is wanted in Lima for a 1962 murder. By week's end, government troops had already captured one small guerrilla group near Cuzco along with 16 Czech-made submachine guns and three cases of rifles. Belaúnde's government sounded determined to track down the rest of the terrorists. "We will proceed with utmost energy," promised Premier Fernando Schwalb, "and with all means at our disposal...
...estates, "worker-controlled industrial cooperatives, easy loans, housing and food." He sought support from anyone he thought would give it, cheered Peru's ultranationalists with an attack on U.S.-owned oil companies, then turned around and wooed businessmen with talk of foreign investment. Opposition goons in Cuzco turned one rally into a rock fight, bloodying Belaunde's head. When the ballots were counted, Belaúnde had lost again-to APRA's Haya, by the paper-thin margin of 14,000 votes...
...mile span, hugging the eastern slopes of the Andes and connecting with access roads pushing up from Peru's west coast. Belaúnde's engineers are already pushing penetration routes from the coastal town of Pisco to the mountain town of Ayacucho, from Nazca into Cuzco, from Puno down the rugged eastern slope of the Andes into the southern montana. Estimated cost: $400 million. Like Juscelino Kubitschek's Brasilia, the project will be years justifying itself. "But you know," ventures one Peruvian, "in a hundred years we might look awfully foolish...
...Muerte banners. Once again Peru's restless peasants were trying to chase landowners off their estates. The invasions have been going on for months, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has hesitated to intervene. But last week, when 8,000 peasants appeared at 14 haciendas near Cuzco in the southern highlands, troops drove them back in a pitched battle that left 17 dead, 32 wounded on both sides. Within hours, Belaúnde declared martial law in the area-and then pressed ahead with a reform program to give Peru's Indians by law what he cannot...
There had certainly been a rash of leftist violence to point to. Led by a onetime agronomy student and longtime Communist named Hugo Blanco, peasants in the Convencion valley, near Cuzco, took up arms nine months ago; the government has yet to catch up with him. Communist-organized trade unionists and students have staged riots, and Red agitators work to turn relatively peaceful strikes into bloody free-for-alls. Striking miners recently burned and sacked a lead and zinc complex belonging to the U.S.-owned Cerro de Pasco Corp., causing $4,000,000 damage...