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...years have died in a senseless and uncoordinated fury that no one seems able to end. The butchery is so much a part of national life that many Colombians have learned to ignore it. Last week a powerful new book, La Violencia en Colombia, was creating a stir in Bogotá. It attempts to understand the killing, measure its costs, and bring Colombians face-to-face with the bloody, bitter consequences...
...troops armed with a .32 revolver, and by bluster and reputation he drove the soldiers away. Anti-Communist and pro-U.S., he puts his faith in the Alliance for Progress and in his own popularity among Colombians. A huge crowd followed him to the polling place in the Bogotá capital. When Valencia had voted, the crowd roared: "Viva Valencia. Viva the President of the poor...
...American hemisphere. He is a real soldier, a soldier of peace.'' "A patriotic crusade," cried Mexico City's Ultimas Noticias, and even some sections of the Yankee-baiting press changed their tone. In Buenos Aires, a powerful, anti-Yankee Peronista leader was forced to admit: "After Bogotá's clear and courageous speech, there is nothing to do but applaud and support Kennedy and his alianza...
Solidarity and Safety. After spending the night in Los Núñez, the Venezuelan version of the White House, the Kennedys planned to jet off for Bogotá, where the President would confer with Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo, another good South American friend of the U.S. As it was originally conceived. President Kennedy's trip to Latin America had been seen as a ritualistic way for the U.S. to demonstrate the importance it places on hemispheric solidarity. Then, after the commitments were made, came the deep worries about the physical safety of John and Jacqueline...
...Alliance for Progress aid program, President Kennedy planned to venture into volatile Latin America this week for the first time since his inauguration. With the First Lady along, Kennedy scheduled three ports of call: San Juan, in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; then Caracas, Venezuela; then Bogotá, Colombia...