The Duke of Edinburgh's South American tour.

Specific aim of tour was to discover opportunities for British business in this potentially wealthy continent which Britain helped develop last century, but which has since attracted other foreign investors so that British influence has declined. Film shows the Duke receiving an enthusiastic welcome wherever he goes in British Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. In addition to visiting British owned concerns in these countries Duke has time to sightsee in Quito, travel on a British-built railway in the Andes, see the Inca city at Cuzco in Peru, cross Lake Titicaca by boat, unveil a plaque on the British arch in Valparaiso, tour the flooded town of Valdivia in Chile, land on a cattle ranch in Uruguay and visit the three major cities of Brazil. Typifying the business-like unceremonial spirit of the tour, Duke is seen at the controls of the BEA Dart Herald in which he travelled. Report passes over the social and political problems of Latin America apart from mentioning the imprisonment of the Argentinian President Frondizi, the Duke's host a few days before.