Word: bogot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Congress was not a success. The personal attacks on him increased. As dictator of Colombia, he was charged with planning to make himself king. The politicians and the rebellious generals began to undermine him. In 1830, the year he died, Bolivar appeared before the Congress at Bogotá and renounced his power as president and generalissimo...
Last week a third caravan of contemporary U.S. paintings set up its wares in Bogotá, capital of Colombia...
...opening night, Bogotá's exhibition attracted 600 distinguished Colombians, including President Eduardo Santos. The audience quickly found a favorite in Eugene Speicher's elegant portrait of Katharine Cornell, delighted in a realism U.S. films had not taught them to expect. Said Bogotá's El Tiempo next morning: "The exhibition opens a new phase in U.S. relations with Latin America which till yesterday had been a vain exercise of rhetoric...
This week, with attendance averaging over 4,000 a week, and the press devoting columns of space to it, the Buenos Aires show drew to a close. It moves next to Montevideo, then to Rio. The Mexico City exhibition goes next to Santiago, Lima, Quito; the Bogotá show will travel to Caracas and Havana. By year's end Nelson Rockefeller's convoys will have visited ten Latin-American capitals...
...assurance that it would not flare up again. Both Governments were mad. Peru accused Ecuador of provoking an incident to force a settlement by the other American nations. Ecuador thought Peru was trying to settle the dispute by pure force. In Washington, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá diplomats hastened to proffer their good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue of Simon Bolivar...