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Word: bogot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before 1 p.m., a light rain swept across Bogotá, wetting the columns of the Capitolio. There the ninth International Conference of American States had been in session for a fortnight on matters of high moment to the hemisphere-the industrial upbuilding of Latin America, the problem of Communism in the Americas. As the rain began to fall, most meetings adjourned for lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Upheaval | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Bogotá looks more like a blitzed city than one that has been through a near-revolution. Dozens of "buildings are burned, hundreds of stores wrecked and looted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Upheaval | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Bogotá's narrow, crowded streets, diplomats needed half an hour to drive ten blocks to the opening session of the ninth International Conference of American States. It took them hardly longer to get down to business, once they convened in the refurbished brownstone Capitolio Nacional. For these representatives of the 21 American republics, two issues overshadowed all others: 1) U.S. economic aid for Latin America, the subject latinos held most vital; 2) Communism in the hemisphere, and how to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Ninth in Bogot | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Although Chile will demand a hearing on Antarctica at the Bogota conference this spring, González Videla intended to handle things in his own direct-action way . for the time being. With Bogotá-bound Pascual la Rosa, Argentine Foreign Office big shot, he signed an accord for a common front against Britain and negotiation of disputed Argentine-Chilean claims in the polar regions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Conquering Hero | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

This week Betancourt, who had leased a house (for 500 Bs a month), was trying to dig up enough money for a four-week vacation in the U.S. before going to the Bogotá conference, where his expenses will be paid as chief of the Venezuelan delegation. After the conference, he plans to return to Caracas, hopes to make a living writing for newspapers. He also may become salaried head of the Acción Democrática party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Out of Pocket | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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