South America

<p><span class="deck"> The Facts Behind the Current Controversy Over Immigration</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Forty years ago it was Nazis, not communists, we wanted to keep out of Latin America. A veteran of that propaganda war recalls our efforts to bring American values to a bewildered Ecuador.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Starting with 30 “liberated” rifles, Augusto Sandino forced American troops out of Nicaragua in 1933.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In July 1911 the author’s father climbed a remote ridge in Peru to discover, amid an almost impenetrable jungle, the fabled lost city of Machu Picchu, last capital of the Inca Empire. Or so the story goes.</span> </p>