The bulk of this narrative was written in 1970-71 and set aside for various reasons until now. I have done some further editing and included some explanatory material, a few postscripts, and endnotes. Some of the additions are to let the reader know what happened later, others to give an idea of what a correspondent's life is like. The stories are a selection of the many I filed from 1958 through 1970, the period during which I reported from South America.