Word: bogot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their final session, the delegates to the Inter-American conference rode out of scarred Bogotá to the white-walled home of the first Pan American. A chill Andean drizzle fell as they gathered at the Quinta de Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...
...Blaine headed the first modern Pan American conference in Washington, in hopes of building a hemispheric trade system based on a newly industrialized U.S. For all the oratory, nothing much happened until World War II turned the system into a virtual Good Neighbors' alliance. It had been Bogotá's job to make the wartime relationship permanent...
...Bogotá, delegates had finally founded an Organization of American States, to function regionally within the U.N. setup, and had drawn up its constitution. Its new council, replacing the Pan American Union governing board, would not have the power of the U.N.'s Security Council. Screaming "super state," Argentina had squelched that move, and decisions, large & small, would still be made in 21 different chancelleries...
...unanimously adopted anti-Communist resolution had been Bogotá's proof that on fundamental political questions the hemisphere's republics stood solidly together. Economic integration was something else again. Even if the new economic charter's guarantees brought a southward flow of private U.S. capital, it would not be enough for all of Latin America's economic needs. The only final salvation for dollar-short countries like Argentina lay in restoring Europe's capacity to pay for their agricultural produce with the girders, dynamos and machines so badly wanted. Economically, as Walter Lippmann...
...Ecuador, outraged residents of Quito awoke one morning last week to discover on their walls: "Death to Yankee imperialism-Viva Russia-Yesterday Bogotá, tomorrow Quito!" Beneath was scrawled the hammer & sickle. Ecuador's 2,500 Communists denied responsibility, but the government, deep in a political campaign and fearful that inflammatory Colombia might set off sparks in neighboring Ecuador, closed the northern boundary and set up special police patrols in some cities. Would there be a.revolution? "Of course," was the cynical answer of President Carlos Julio Arosema, "there has to be one. There are three candidates for President...