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Chile's Carlos Davila, secretary-general of the Organization of American States (set up at the Bogota Conference in 1948), had even better figures to back him up. Davila told the conference that Latin America has paid back to the U.S. (on public and private loans) $1.5 billion more than the U.S. had put in; for U.S. investors, the profit rate comes to a thumping...
Married. Maria Eugenia Pinilla, 21, daughter of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia; and Samuel Moreno, 33, lawyer and director of the influential Conservative daily, Diario de Colombia; in Bogota, Colombia...
Colombian university students, singing the national anthem, marched 4,000 strong into downtown Bogota last week to protest the killing of a fellow student in a scuffle with police the day before. At a street corner they were halted by a cordon of rifle-bearing soldiers. For a few minutes, an amiable standoff prevailed. Then, from a balcony overhead, came the report of a pistol. A soldier fell dead...
...Condemned racial discrimination and called for laws to end it. 1$ Decided to hold a full-dress conference on hemisphere economic problems in Rio (rather than Washington) next fall. Debated questions of human rights, the right of asylum, and revision of the Bogota pact for obligatory settlement of inter-American disputes, and agreed to act on all items in time to adjourn next week...
...intervention," U.S. efforts to turn the spotlight on Guatemala's influential Reds. Unless Secretary Dulles and his men can do an expert, tactful job of persuasion, the Latinos may be inclined simply to place on record a piously anti-Communist resolution, similar to the one adopted at Bogota in 1948, and let it go at that...