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Eclectic Platform. Behind the scenes, Maria Eugenia runs her father's party, the Alianza National Popular, known simply as ANAPO. As majority leader of Bogota's city council, she is also de facto mayor of the capital...
ANAPO has representatives in at least 700 of Bogota's 900 neighborhoods. The first person to call on migrants pouring into the slums from depressed rural areas is usually an ANAPO recruiter. The party obtains jobs for 400 people a month in Bogota alone, offers free medical and dental care to members. With 24 cities of 100,000 or more people in Colombia (overall population: 21 million), that kind of urban organization could lead to an ANAPO victory in the 1974 elections. The established parties are painfully aware of that, and President Pastrana is pressing Congress for basic educational...
...trading center is the town of Peñas Blancas, a huddle of 50 rickety buildings. There a mining-squad leader spreads out his haul before a family boss who may carry a million pesos (about $50,000) in a shoulder-strap bag. The emeralds are hauled back to Bogota, where many are sold to foreign dealers in back rooms of the dim bars and cafes that line 14th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Jewels are smuggled out of the country by two international combines that finance the families' buying trips. Some emeralds leave in the pockets...
...shooting war. Only a few weeks ago, a World War H-vintage Venezuelan North American B-25 bomber fired on a pair of U.S. Bell Huey helicopters that were mapping the Guajira frontier between Colombia and Venezuela, where oil exploration is under way. In part because Caracas fears that Bogota might bring its shiny new French-made Mirages into the argument, the Venezuelans have increased their oil taxes-to the great displeasure of the U.S. oil companies there-and announced plans to spend $35.5 million of the extra money on a jet squadron. That will make Venezuela the sixth...
...first returns came in last week, Rojas quickly claimed victory-but then so did Pastrana. When Lleras Restrepo announced that the close vote would take several days to tally, Rojas charged "bald robbery," and thousands of Rojistas swarmed into Bogota's main intersection. Lleras Restrepo declared a state of siege and threw a cordon of troops around Rojas' house as "protection." After a few tense hours, well-trained riot police managed to clear the streets with no fatalities and few injuries. At week's end Pastrana led by 66,000 votes. The slim margin surprised those...