Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year later in Bogota, Colombia, Castro was involved in a student congress which had a core of well-organized Communists. The congress issued a protest against American policies. There can be no doubt that Castro then had anti-American, if not Communist sentiments...
...Colombians live in hunger, another 6,000,000 barely manage to cling to the lower fringes of an adequate living standard, while an elite 4.6% of the population has 40% of the national income. Spearheaded by a small but boisterous band of Communists and abetted by students, Bogota's hungry took to the streets in March to protest a bus-fare increase from 1.87? to 3?. For hours, they pelted soldiers with stones and curses...
...Spanish-language business-news magazine that is flown into 19 Latin American countries. Visão (circ. 45,886), a sister publication to Visión, is a Portuguese-language news weekly in Brazil. In addition, the company has a half interest in Semana, a news weekly published in Bogota, Colombia, owns the profitable business-pamphleteering ("Just Between Office Girls") National Foremen's Institute...
...inquisitive Senator wanted to know why Rojas had opened a checking account in a big Bogota bank and, without depositing a centavo, had written a check for 76,000 pesos. Rojas' memory, notoriously poor during most of the questioning, failed again. "I don't remember any details about this draft," he said. "This is the first time I've received any information about...
...they indignantly faulted the trials for the open prejudice of the judges, the popcorn-munching atmosphere, the haste, the catering to the mob's thirst for blood. Cracked one reporter: "Where do the lions come in?" Castro's bad press notices mounted, from Buenos Aires, Rio, Lima, Bogota, Mexico City. "The laurels have been soiled by blood," said Bogota's respected El Tiempo. U.S. opinion was sharply critical, with the notable exceptions of Democratic Congressmen Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (N.Y.) and Charles Porter (Ore.) who journeyed to Cuba at Castro's urging and proclaimed that they...