Word: bolivarian
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...plotters apparently believed that popular discontent was sufficient to swing the citizenry to their side. Over the years, the officers had made little secret of their intentions or their motives, though no one paid much attention. Calling themselves the Bolivarian Military Movement, they pledged allegiance to the country's liberator, Simon Bolivar, and accused the government of being a corrupt "oligarchy" out of touch with the people...
...Which is named for another Bolivarian hero, General Antonio José de Sucre...
When historians eventually fix the place and time of the Republic of Panama's change from a Bolivarian nation* to a Central American nation, they may well decide on an offhand conference held one day last week at a grey clapboard customs house on the border between Costa Rica and Panama. The conferees: Panama's President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias, in mustard-colored slacks and a brown sports jacket, and Costa Rica's José ("Pepe") Figueres, in shirtsleeves and loosened...
...Colombia's two-year-old state-of-siege conditions permitted. Though the President had lined up the Liberator for his favorite constitutional ideas, many of his own Conservatives seemed loth to turn the clock back. Even in 1826, one warned, Colombians wanted no part of the Bolivarian constitution. Nevertheless, the President pressed for action. Senator Alvaro Gómez, his son, demanded "complete constitutional reform...
...inspire respect rather than pity, Molina left out the traditional wounds, a departure that shocked Neiva's orthodox clergy. Nevertheless, the local government decided to exhibit the statue last month at the Bolivarian Eucharistic Congress in Cali. There clerical higher-ups agreed that it was good church art-except for the absence of the wounds. After Molina added them, the statue was blessed by the Archbishop of Cartagena...