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Peru peasant dismisses Alliance for Progress in dirt floor hut
Juan Jose Benitez, living with seven children on 80 cents for eight hours, derides the Alliance for Progress. He laments no schools or hospitals and notes rich landowners profit as slums and poverty persist around Lima. The report contrasts other Latin cities like Chile's Valparaiso, where housing reforms show limited improvement.
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