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...lioness and given birth to three cubs. And it was at Medellin that Emilio's niece had died of typhoid; the show had gone on, even on her funeral day. With the money Emilio's wife had put away, they would buy a house in Bogotá and become solid citizens...
Profits & Losses. On top of these added costs, traders disgusted with shipping delays began switching from the Caribbean port of Barranquilla, at the Magdalena's mouth, to the Pacific port of Buenaventura, which is linked to Bogotá by train and truck. Result: Naviera Colombiana's operations, which once yielded a profit averaging a million and more pesos a year, showed a loss of 212,000 pesos ($123,000) in the first half...
...come to the end of a policy. At Bogotá, the American nations had agreed to junk the old practice of not recognizing dictatorial or unpopular governments. Last week the U.S. (and Colombia) recognized the sovereign state of Nicaragua, ruled over by smirking, slippery Dictator Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza...
...Bogotá, delegates had finally founded an Organization of American States, to function regionally within the U.N. setup, and had drawn up its constitution. Its new council, replacing the Pan American Union governing board, would not have the power of the U.N.'s Security Council. Screaming "super state," Argentina had squelched that move, and decisions, large & small, would still be made in 21 different chancelleries...
...unanimously adopted anti-Communist resolution had been Bogotá's proof that on fundamental political questions the hemisphere's republics stood solidly together. Economic integration was something else again. Even if the new economic charter's guarantees brought a southward flow of private U.S. capital, it would not be enough for all of Latin America's economic needs. The only final salvation for dollar-short countries like Argentina lay in restoring Europe's capacity to pay for their agricultural produce with the girders, dynamos and machines so badly wanted. Economically, as Walter Lippmann...