Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuban military personnel now lead and advise the Nicaraguan forces," a number that is confirmed by U.S. intelligence reports. Sandinista officials claim that Nicaragua has only 800 noncombatant Cuban advisers. Reagan also repeated earlier Administration allegations that the Sandinistas had armed the M-19 guerrillas who stormed Bogota's Palace of Justice last month. Both Colombia's Foreign Minister and Sandinista leaders denied the charge. U.S. intelli
Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, a 23-year-old Bogota native, said while his efforts were successful, other attempts to help survivors of the disaster that left 20,000 dead were marred by incompetent delivery of goods and guerilla attacks against relief vehicles...
When Melendez-Ortiz arrived in Bogota he met with the president, Belisario Betancur, and was given access to the disaster area which was made off limits by the military...
Operating out of a Bogota warehouse and with the help of Colombian volunteers, Melendez-Ortiz used computers to match the demands of the five major hospitals serving the stricken area...
...impact, the disruption of communications caused in part by the collapse of Mexico City's main transmission tower prolonged the suspense. Only TV-13 provided information, and only to those who were fortunate enough to still have electricity; sections of the city were without power. A station in Bogota, Colombia, was able to monitor the Mexican channel's transmissions via satellite, and relayed the highlights to the outside world. International telephone and telex circuits were down and, as during the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, the first on-the-spot accounts came from amateur radio operators. Using battery-powered...