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...Dominion, with its tie to the Crown in London, was once regarded as an outpost of the Old World. But now, Canada would be welcomed as another Anglo-Saxon voice at a predominantly Latin table. The constitution of the Pan American Union can easily be changed at the Bogota conference this year to admit the Dominion...
When a U.S. news scout searched Bogota for a Colombian representative last year, he was told that there was only one man in the country who knew how to write the terse, factual stories that North Americans like. "Unfortunately for you," a Colombian explained, "he is our President." He spoke of keen, wiry Alberto Lleras Camargo, the "boy wonder" editor who became Minister of Interior (Premier) at 29, and stepped into the presidency ten years later. Last week, Lleras, now 41, got a job with even more scope; he was elected director general of the venerable Pan American Union...
...factories already function in Medellin and the adjacent towns of Itagui, Bello, Envigado and Copacabana, but industrialization goes on. The municipal power system provides the cheapest electricity in South America, and is stepping up the supply with a second huge hydro development. The well-paved streets contrast sharply with Bogota's slovenliness. Illiteracy in Antioquia is relatively...
...Housemaids, Invest! In Bogota, money is usually invested in real estate. But in Antioquia, industrial joint stock companies have achieved a fabulous development. Even the housemaids follow the stockmarket. The biggest investor in the Cia. Colombiana de Tabaco, the country's No. 2 enterprise, owns no more than 3% of the stock. When a new hotel or steel plant is launched, the stock issue is subscribed practically overnight. It is as though every Antioquian peso were motorized to rush into the breach at the first opportunity...
Antioquenos are colonizing Colombia's cities as well as its mountainsides. Penniless paisas (Antioqueno peasants) arrive in Barranquilla or Bogota, marry a rich man's daughter (if possible), set up as peddlers or petty merchants in any case. In one generation, by shrewd trading, they end up as merchant princes or industrialists. A sizable part of Bogota's industries and banks are controlled by Medellinenses...