Word: barranquilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conservative candidate, won. Gaitan ran third. But he polled a stupendous vote (about 358,957), mostly in the cities where the workers liked his brand of rabble-rousing. In Bogota, Colombia's capital, which calls itself the South American Athens, and in the ports of Cartagena and Barranquilla (but not in Medellin -see below), Gaitan received more votes than Ospina and Turbay together...
Last week, Venezuelans got the sequel to the best robber mystery they had known in many a day. In Barranquilla in neighboring Colombia, police began to watch one Julio Casa Rivas. Reason: he was buying flashy cars and diamonds, and otherwise tossing around Venezuelan bolivars. Rivas was arrested, told all: with a cashier accomplice he had switched moneybags just before the San Tome-bound plane took off from Caracus...
...battle of the ports was being fought with fresh vigor. Cartagena, 414 years old and long a sleeper behind ancient, 50-foot-thick walls, had roused itself and gone after business. Its parvenu competitors: Barranquilla and Buenaventura. Stake: the trade between Colombia's rich, highland interior and lands across...
...lawyer named Manuel Ramon Navarro Patron had shown the way. Sent to Bogota to lobby for Cartagena (pop. 100,000), he had campaigned so well that by last week the Government had agreed to channel to Cartagena a big chunk of the Magdalena River traffic that had lately overcrowded Barranquilla's docks. Lawyer Navarro also got Government backing for a modern $2,500,000 sewage system, plus promises of new Government buildings and a railroad to tap Cartagena's hinterland...
...Invasion. In the past century, Barranquilla gradually cut in on Cartagena. The upstart used U.S. loans to improve its harbor, then made the most of the fact that it was close to the mouth of the wide, serpentine Magdalena, chief communications line from coast to capital. (Cartagena's harbor is connected with the Magdalena by a canal.) Last year, Barranquilla handled 80% of the nation's exports of cotton, coffee and oil. On Colombia's Pacific side, filthy, swampy Buenaventura (literally, good luck) had made good its name: the outlet for the booming western industrial regions, Buenaventura...