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Shortly before 1 p.m., a light rain swept across Bogotá, wetting the columns of the Capitolio. There the ninth International Conference of American States had been in session for a fortnight on matters of high moment to the hemisphere-the industrial upbuilding of Latin America, the problem of Communism in the Americas. As the rain began to fall, most meetings adjourned for lunch...
...Bogotá looks more like a blitzed city than one that has been through a near-revolution. Dozens of "buildings are burned, hundreds of stores wrecked and looted...
...When I walked from the hotel to the cable office, about eight blocks, I stumbled over bodies and debris. To escape soldiers' and snipers' bullets I crouched in doorways, flattened myself against walls, dashed across exposed street corners. The government has announced that calm reigns in Bogotá, but it is a strange calm. Every few minutes there is heavy firing. The troops are still trying to clean out snipers...
Gaitán's assassin was too battered to be identified. But whether Gaitán had been killed by a Communist or not, the Red comrades showed that they knew how to make the most of the situation. The rapidity with which the disorders spread through Bogotá and then to other Colombian cities certainly indicated skilled direction, if not considerable planning. And the result suited the party, right down to the ground. Said the New York Daily Worker: "Interruption of the Foreign Ministers' parley is a sock in the jaw to the Big Business...
Decision. As the gunfire died away and Bogotá lay desolate, looted, gutted and under martial law, heads of conference delegations met to decide whether to stay in Bogotá or to go home. In Santiago, the Chilean government declared that the conference must go on. Not all Latin-American countries were so sure. Finally the delegates made their decision: "To continue the important work with which the governments have charged them until they have fully completed the task . . . for which they were convened." But that did not necessarily mean that the conference would stay in ruined Bogotá. There...