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...before last week's bullfights in Bogotá, the Colombian government announced cryptically that it was taking "fitting measures" to head off opposition "political manifestations'' in the huge Santamaria bull ring. The measures turned out to be novel as well as fitting: the regime bought $15,000 worth of tickets and distributed them to thousands of policemen, plainclothesmen and government employees. On bullfight day the official ticketholders were waved through the gates; other fans were carefully frisked for weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Bull-Ring Massacre | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...responsible El Colombiano, was closed down by the device of moving the government's censorship office to an out-of-town military post, where editors were ordered to bring all copy. Since the same move shut two other Medellin papers, Rojas Pinilla, who has blotted out all of Bogotá's oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship and reappeared. But their prospects were gloomy under Rojas Pinilla, who seemed to be bucking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Bull-Ring Massacre | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Something new in oil contracts was announced last week in Bogotá. Colombia's government-owned oil company, Ecopetrol (Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos), and a private U.S. oil firm, Cities Service Co., agreed to share costs and profits in developing the promising El Carare area, a 2,200,000-acre tract near the Magdalena River 120 miles north of Bogot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Good Partners | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...Rojas Pinilla last week made a confident reply to his critics, who now include six of Colombia's seven living ex-Presidents, some from Rojas' own Conservative Party and others from the opposition Liberals. The general complaint: Rojas' increasingly harsh measures, e.g., closing down the respected Bogotá daily El Tiempo last August, are turning Colombia into an out-and-out military dictatorship, and costing the government heavily in prestige. Rojas' answer, made in an impromptu speech at the opening of an exhibit of public works: "I ask myself how the government can be losing prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Going Strong | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...American high schools in the Colombian cities of Bogotá, Barranquilla and Cali, run by U.S. and Colombian Protestants, are among the country's best. But henceforth, Roman Catholic parents who send children to the American schools will be liable to excommunication. Crisanto Cardinal Luque warned them of the church's extreme penalty in a pastoral letter read last week to Colombia's 11 million Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Church v. Schools | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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