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...amount of aid or assistance, it seemed, could dispel the widespread feeling that the bureaucracy in Bogot?? had failed when the crisis was at its worst. Critics of the relief effort charge that three days after the eruption the government had still failed to organize a plan of action. By that time, of course, hundreds of people alive in Armero immediately after the mudslides had perished. Nonetheless, U.S. Ambassador Charles A. Gillespie defended the Colombian government, saying that confusion and disorganization "are normal in disaster situations...
Many Colombians, who saw one heartrending human tragedy after another on television, were less generous. Some drew parallels between the government response to the volcano and the Nov. 7 crisis at Bogot??'s Palace of Justice, where 100 people, including eleven Supreme Court justices, died during a furious gun battle between troops and M-19 guerrillas. "The army lost no time in blowing up the Justice Palace," says a Bogot?? lawyer bitterly, "but they couldn't get a water pump to Armero to save the life of a little girl." Indeed, 13-year-old Omaira Sanchez had become a national...
...supported the decision to go in. So did the hijack survivors, including Pilot Hani Galal, who had told the tower at Valletta, "Please do something. They're going to kill us all." The same shock coupled with somber understanding had accompanied an anti-terrorist assault 17 days earlier in Bogot??, Colombia, where at least two dozen terrorists died, along with nearly 100 hostages...
GELDOF This is a political event, not a cultural event. In order to get political momentum, one guy with a banner is not enough. You need millions. The lingua franca of the planet, as we learned from Live Aid, is not English--it's pop music. From Guangzhou to Bogot??, they listen to 50 Cent, Eminem, U2 and Coldplay. Do they listen to the more esoteric individual cultures? No. That's reality. Do they listen to Muddy Waters? I wish they did. Then I'd put a bill up there with him and John Lee Hooker...
...failing to consider differences at the local level, he ignores some bright spots that have recently cropped up in Latin America. Innovative municipal governance in places like Curitiba, Brazil and Bogot??¡, Colombia has dramatically improved quality of life, reducing crime while furnishing world-class civic services...