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Despair. Last week, on the first vacation of her life. Teacher Mejia was visiting her country's capital, Bogotá, for the first time. Officials had called her for the compelling reason that Colombia is 43% illiterate and sadly in need of more schools, as well as of citizens who care. Would Dona Eladia tell the people how she does it? "To talk about oneself is naughty as well as unpedagogical," said she. Then she went on TV, and in a 15-minute interview with Colombia's school-building boss, did more for the cause than a dozen...
...appears on TIME'S first gatefold cover picture, it symbolizes not only the spirit of the season, along with Christmas cards and Santa's sleigh bells, but also a growing resurgence of religion and worship wherever men gather at Christmastide, be it in Bethlehem or Bogotá, North Viet Nam or North Hollywood, Calif...
Beyond Cuba and Panama experts worry that next February's eleventh Inter-American Conference in Ecuador may bring a Communist-inspired anti-U.S. outbreak like the riots in Bogotá in 1948. But the U.S. is by no means isolated and embattled. Major hemisphere nations, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, have friendly and responsible governments and people. Such authentically liberal chiefs of state as Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia and Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela are increasingly wondering about Castro. Betancourt fortnight ago barred a visit by the Cuba revolution's foremost proCommunists: Majors...
...Treaty Writer. The causes are historical, emotional, economic and political. They go back to the turn of the century, when President Theodore Roosevelt became convinced that the U.S. must build a canal through the section of the isthmus then controlled by Colombia ("I do not think that the Bogotá lot of jack rabbits should be allowed permanently to bar one of the future highways of civilization"). Sounded out by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a Frenchman and chief engineer in Ferdinand de Lesseps' unsuccessful earlier attempt to build a Panama Canal. President Roosevelt gave tacit support to a Panamanian revolution...
...young Colombian spied an ad that roused his dreams. The American correspondence school promised a radio and electronics course, equipment to study with. To raise tuition, the boy's father sold the family house. Off went his precious pesos-and the school was never heard from. In Bogotá, the U.S. consul nodded wearily as the victims denounced the "wicked and harmful" deception...