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...longtime Liberal leader (and distant cousin of Lleras Restrepo) who served ably from 1958 to 1962 as the front's first President, then retired to Manhattan and a job as editorial chairman of Visión, Latin America's leading Spanish-language newsmagazine. Going back to Bogotá last August, Lleras set out to glue the front together by main force of personality and prestige. He urged all Colombians "to bind ourselves in a great movement to awaken the national conscience." In the political back rooms and in talks with the country's landowning upper class, Lleras...
...year) in the U.S., the paper is aimed primarily at the U.S. business community; most of its 4,000 subscribers are businessmen in the U.S. with interests in Latin America. Latin American subscription prices range from a forbidding $100 for air-freight delivery in Buenos Aires to $75 in Bogot...
Died. Efrain González, 29, Colombian bandit chieftain, one of the Andean country's most wanted men and leader of a gang credited with close to 250 murders in the past six years; by gunfire, in an attack on his suburban Bogotá hideout by 425 soldiers using tear gas, rifles, machine guns and a 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun, while thousands of civilians looked...
...intense and obstinate propaganda campaign to destroy the country's institutions," said Lleras Restrepo. And sure enough, its institutions were growing shakier by the day. Toward week's end, university students protesting U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic went on a seven-hour rampage in Bogotá, slinging stones and Molotov cocktails, breaking windows in a U.S.-Colombian cultural center, and taking over two radio stations. When police finally restored order, more than 100 people were injured. Valencia promptly seized upon the riot as an excuse to declare a state of siege...
...morning recently, Tiro Fijo and 160 men, wearing olive green fatigues in the Cuban fashion, stopped a bus on a country road 200 miles southwest of Bogotá; they sprayed the 24 occupants with submachine-gun fire, leaving 13 dead, including two nuns. The band then marched to the nearby town of Inza (pop. 1,000), where Tiro Fijo's men executed the mayor, town treasurer, bank manager and a policeman before looting three stores and a bank. To the terrified townspeople, Tiro Fijo said that he wants to be known only by his real name...