Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Roosevelt, who was then president, recorded his contempt of the Bogota Treaty which was made after this revolution. He expressed himself in these words: "I did not lift my finger to incite the revolutionists. Colombia was solely responsible for her own humiliation, and she had not then and has not now, one shadow of claim upon us moral or legal; all the wrong that was done, was done by her." And now certain interests are trying to "rail-road" this treaty--which has never been ratified--through the present Congress...
...Bogota Treaty promises the South American republic twenty-five million dollars, together with certain other concessions as an indemnity for any injury which Colombia might have suffered through the loss of Panama and the building of the Panama canal. The attempt of the present Administration to obtain its immediate ratification recently failed and the Roosevelt senators have served notice on President Harding that they would not allow the treaty to go to vote until the people had a chance to read and hear the question debated in the senate...