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Leaders of the front knew all too well what had happened. Said Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 57, the Liberals' candidate for President next May: "The traditional parties have lost contact with a certain sector of the population." He meant the thousands of excampesinos who squat in squalid shacks surrounding Bogota and Cartagena and have been growing restive under the lackluster rule of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia. During the campaign, Rojas drew enthusiastic crowds with his vivid lectures on economics, in which he argued that the way to get the peso on a par with the dollar...
...Bogota, Colombia...
...intervention -- the idea that no state or group of states has the right to interfere directly or indirectly in the internal affairs of another state -- is essential legally and diplomatically to every program of hemispheric co-operation. It is stated clearly in Article 15 of the Charter of Bogota, the basic document of policy for the Americas, and it was repeated by nearly every speaker at the Rio Conference. Although the ministers tactfully buried a resolution sponsored by Colombia condemning "a military armed intervention this year in the Dominican Republic", they left no doubt of their dissatisfaction with American policy...
Riesman has worked with the Peace Corps for several years. He went to Bogota, Columbia, last fall to meet with a group of volunteers and discuss problems confronting them...
...formation of the International Union of American Republics in 1890. Political family-hood, as Bolivar envisioned it, did not arrive until 1947, when a new generation of defense-minded Americans, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, drew up a treaty for mutual protection against aggression. In 1948 in Bogota, they agreed on a charter, calling themselves...