Word: bogot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning the poets took off for what they hoped would be a more amiable reception in Bogotá. The 13 critics were still in jail and there was no telling, said the chief of Venezuela's National Security Police, how long they would be there...
Last week in Washington, the Foreign Policy Association, taking note of the big postwar crop of military coups, reported "the persisting feeling that, in practice, recent U.S. policy has redounded to the advantage of repressive regimes in Latin America." Bogotá's newspaper; El Liberal went much further. "Formerly," it said, "the fundamental condition to be an ally of the U.S. was to be democratic; now it is to be anti-Russian. The old democratic friends of the U.S. are now criticized as pro-Russian." Right or wrong, these and other Latin American views would once more be assured...