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Peace Without Poison

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A military junta led by General Ricardo Pérez Godoy ousted President Manuel Prado Ugarteche(1956-1962) in a coup d'état in July 1962 and within months began covert methods ofdepopulation. By July 1963, the military felt the depopulation program to be safely in place andallowed a civilian to assume the presidency. President Fernando Belaúnde Terry (1963-1968)was ousted from office in 1968 by General Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado, undoubtedlybecause he refused to sterilize his people, and a military dictatorship took over the country forthe next 11 years, time during which the total fertility rate was reduced from 6.5 to 4.7 childrenper woman.Fernando Belaúnde Terry returned from exile in the US, where he was re-educated to accept thedepopulation prerogative, and allowed to assume the presidency so long as he continued the647 | P a g e

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