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When members of Bogotá's Tolima colony recently brought the bambuco to the capital, instructors had to show the city folk how the bambuco was done. But that was all that was needed. By last week city slickers whistled Pescador, Guabina Chiquinquirena and other mountain favorites as if they had known them all their lives...
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...
Three years ago L. A. Rojas-Cruz, of Bogotá, Colombia, received a letter from us inviting him to subscribe to TIME'S Latin America edition, which is printed in English. Recently we heard from him as follows: "When I received your offer ... I was just starting to take English lessons and I could not read the letter. Now that I can I am anxious to get a subscription . . . and so would like to know the new rate...
...Complete Calm." Within two hours, the tension lifted. This was no April 9 for Bogotá. Well-drilled military police on every street corner made that plain. At 9 p.m. curfew the government announced...