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Rojas' favorite weekend hideout is his luxurious estate at Melgar. Since he acquired the place, millions of government pesos have gone into improving the highway that links it with Bogota, the nation's capital, and millions more have been allotted for a rail spur from Melgar to the nearest railroad trunk...
...Currie left the U.S., became an economic adviser to the Colombian government, later resigned to buy a 500-acre ranch, where he raises cattle and supplies milk to Bogota. He avoids the U.S. colony in the capital, has announced that he considers Colombia his "real home," and is seeking citizenship there. Last week the State Department said that Lauchlin Currie, by staying abroad five years, had automatically forfeited U.S. citizenship...
...other publications were permitted to reprint El Catolicismo's stern words; clandestine duplicates were passed from hand to hand and read avidly. But the reprints were not the only notable news reports in circulation. Two important Bogota dailies, both suppressed by Rojas Pinilla, popped up again last week under pen names. Internationally respected El Tiempo reappeared as El Intermedia (Interlude), and El Espectador as El Inde-pendiente. In makeup, typography and content, down to the smallest detail, both papers were identical with their forerunners. Such transparent disguise presumably meant that Strongman Rojas, smarting under criticism, was willing...
Although Rojas claimed that he had clamped down on the press only because it failed to live up to its own "code of honor," Bogota newsmen noted that censorship began on the eve of the President's long-postponed weekend visit to Ecuador, repaying last year's good-will visit to Bogota by President Velasco Ibarra. Just to be on the safe side, President Rojas took with him a huge retinue of 115 Cabinet ministers and officials, including all the friends and foes of consequence who might dream of plotting behind his back. Rojas installed an Acting President...
...were laid. Reason: a merry-go-round of formal state visits by Latin American chiefs of government. The President of Venezuela visited Lima in June,, and next week the President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President Velasco Ibarra...