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...chaparral-covered sand, amidst flapping egrets, toward the low mountain. Next morning he climbed 1,600 feet to the top. The view filled him with awe. The rust-colored lode he saw was later described as "the richest concentration of iron ore on the face of the earth." Cerro Bolívar, as the mountain was named, is estimated to contain half a billion tons of top-grade (63.8% pure) iron...
That was six years ago. Last week Cerro Bolívar and the land around it swarmed with 7,000 men and their machines. Early next year the ore will start flowing north; by 1955 it will be feeding U.S. Steel's new Fairless plant on the Delaware River and supplying 10% of U.S. needs...
Mining Cerro Bolívar will be no easy task. Giant power shovels (the first were arriving this month) will scoop up blasted ore and load it on to trucks which will carry it to the railway (now being built). The 10,000-ton ore trains will roll through the chaparral 90 miles northeast to the black Caroni River, tributary of the Orinoco. For the workers a new town, Ciudad Piar, is sprouting at the foot of Cerro Bolívar, and a new port, Puerto Ordaz, has already been built on the Caroni...
...Latino individualist seems ever ready to fight, or at least duel, for his sacred personal rights, the record shows that he also goes in heavily for hero worship. Since Bolívar's day, Latin Americans have tended to follow men rather than parties or principles. They call themselves Peronistas, Arnulfistas (in Panama), Ibañistas (in Chile). Most of their caudillos, their strong men, have come from the army. Currently, military men preside over eleven Latino governments. Instead of confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized...
Bogotá's Liberals were incensed; in their partisan zeal, they jumped on the Liberator himself. Wrote German Arciniegas, historian and essayist, in El Tiempo: "Bolívar never believed in democracy, and . . . his contempt for the law and confidence in dictatorship overflowed . . . His formula was dictatorship backed by the army and the archbishops...