Word: bogot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán fell to the pavement on Bogotá's Carrera Séptima, dead of an assassin's bullets. The death of Liberal Firebrand Gaitán touched off the bloody riots that Colombians now call el bogotanazo. To forestall possible trouble on the April 9 anniversary, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez forbade mass meetings that day. Liberal leaders promptly called the faithful to memorial services on April...
...Conservative head of a coalition government made up mostly of Liberals, good grey President Mariano Ospina Pérez had more than personal reasons to want the violence stopped. To keep the epidemic from spreading into Bogotá, Ospina last week banned all public meetings from April 8 to 18. That took care of the first anniversary of the assassination of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (TIME, April 19), an occasion which some Liberals had planned to exploit to its riotous limit. Then Ospina summoned the bosses of both major parties to see what could...
...Intercontinental Hotels Corp., holding a token 1% interest, will run them. Costing $5 to $10 million each, they will dot South America, with more to be built later in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. One in Montevideo is almost finished; others are abuilding in Caracas and Bogot...
...force to effect political change is not only deplorable but also inconsistent with the ideals of the American peoples." He went on to assure Gallegos that U.S. recognition did not imply U.S. endorsement of the junta, but was given, reluctantly, in conformance with the policy laid down at the Bogotá conference...
Casimiro Velandia of Bogotá owned a strain of the most belligerent fighting cocks in all Colombia; he was also the proud father of three pretty daughters. Last week these joys of Casimiro's life were sadly entangled...