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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later President Alberto Lleras Camargo called Rojas' bluff. Troops and cops rumbled up in tanks and halftracks, sealed off a 60-block area around Roias' residence. A police colonel and a squad of soldiers hustled the ex-dictator off to a nearby office building, where a Senate committee was meeting to draw up the corruption indictments. After a two-hour grilling, the witness went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Collared by the Cops | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...last week's joyous return to democracy, Colombians temporarily put aside the problems of their fertile, underdeveloped land. As their final official act, the junta members tactfully voted their own retirement from active service. In his first official act, Lleras Camargo decorated all five with the Cross of Boyacá, Colombia's highest medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Civilian Takes Over | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Under the stained-glass dome of the Capitol in Bogotá, a Liberal intellectual with a talent for adroit political compromise became President of Colombia last week, ending five years of military rule. The tricolored sash of office flashing across his starched shirt, Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, 52, stood stiffly through an enthusiastic 21-gun salute that shattered a Capitol window. He listened gravely to aging (69), ailing Conservative Senate President Laureano Gómez, who struggled to his feet to read the oath of office. Lleras Camargo answered, "I swear," and democracy was back in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Civilian Takes Over | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...mignon luncheon in the palace dining room. The two set a time-the week of Aug. 4-for a Brazilian visit by Secretary of State Dulles, and agreed to the idea of a conference of the Americas' foreign ministers, possibly in Bogota, where Colombian President-elect Alberto Lleras Camargo is to be inaugurated Aug. 7. Still in the discussion stage: a meeting of chiefs of state after the foreign ministers' conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Ministers' Meeting | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Diehard military men, bent on short-circuiting the sure election of Civilian Alberto Lleras Camargo as bipartisan President of Colombia, brazenly kidnaped five top Colombians last week. The victims: four of the five joint presidents who make up the military junta that dumped Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May-and Candidate Lleras himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Half-Day Revolt | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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