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...Punta massacre was the latest bloody eruption of "la violencia," the backland killings-part political, part savagery-that have taken more than 300,000 lives in Colombia in the past 14 years. Last week President Guillermo Leon Valencia, just one month in office, called on his Cabinet to draft a bill giving him greater power to establish police stations in rural areas, provide stiffer penalties for violence, and funds to combat banditry...
...across the hemisphere are hard at work spreading Che's "truth" and Communist propaganda. Allied with anyone who will cooperate, from Communists to sincere social work ers, they organize July 26 movements, show films of revolutionary progress, lend a hand in subversive plots, campaign for support among the backland peasants. In Venezuela last week, cops set out to arrest the leader of the July 26 movement after clashes of pro-and anti-Castro rioters and fatally shot him in a doorway. In Argentina, intelligence agents confronted the Cuban ambassador with documentary proof of his complicity in a plot...
...Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, when he grabbed power four years ago at 53, was touted as the man who could end his country's bloody backland guerrilla war; instead he cracked down on newspapers and political opponents, grabbed huge ranches at his own bargain prices. In May last year the military, clergy and businessmen turned on him, sent him on his way to exile in the Canary Islands...
...Brazil's coming men is Juscelino Kubitschek. 52, the trim, dynamic son of German-Polish immigrants who is governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais (pop. 8,000,000). When high-spirited Juscelino ran for office three years ago, he wooed the isolated backland voters with hillbilly songs (How can a fish live out of water? How can I live without you?) and dazzling promises of roads and electricity. Unlike many another Brazilian political charmer, Juscelino is making his campaign oratory come true. His slogan: "What I start I finish...
Next to the ox that pulls his plow, the Mexican peon's most valued possession is his wistful little burro. Last week, the sturdy little beast that carries the nation's backland freight, causes many of its automobile accidents, adorns its literature and enriches its profanity, supplied the theme for the song leading Mexico's hit parade. It was called My Little Burro Doesn't Want to Go, and it was written by a young man named Ventura Romero who had never ridden a burro in his life...