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...Bogotá's narrow, crowded streets, diplomats needed half an hour to drive ten blocks to the opening session of the ninth International Conference of American States. It took them hardly longer to get down to business, once they convened in the refurbished brownstone Capitolio Nacional. For these representatives of the 21 American republics, two issues overshadowed all others: 1) U.S. economic aid for Latin America, the subject latinos held most vital; 2) Communism in the hemisphere, and how to deal with...
Although Chile will demand a hearing on Antarctica at the Bogota conference this spring, González Videla intended to handle things in his own direct-action way . for the time being. With Bogotá-bound Pascual la Rosa, Argentine Foreign Office big shot, he signed an accord for a common front against Britain and negotiation of disputed Argentine-Chilean claims in the polar regions...
This week Betancourt, who had leased a house (for 500 Bs a month), was trying to dig up enough money for a four-week vacation in the U.S. before going to the Bogotá conference, where his expenses will be paid as chief of the Venezuelan delegation. After the conference, he plans to return to Caracas, hopes to make a living writing for newspapers. He also may become salaried head of the Acción Democrática party...
That was a big program to sell to Washington in the six weeks before Bogotá. Bill Pawley thought he could...
...Brazil told his boss that things were going badly in Latin America. The latinos were sore because they felt that the U.S. was neglecting them in favor of Europe, and something ought to be done to straighten things out before next month's Pan American Conference in Bogot...