Word: camargo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist-inspired anti-U.S. outbreak like the riots in Bogotá in 1948. But the U.S. is by no means isolated and embattled. Major hemisphere nations, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, have friendly and responsible governments and people. Such authentically liberal chiefs of state as Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia and Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela are increasingly wondering about Castro. Betancourt fortnight ago barred a visit by the Cuba revolution's foremost proCommunists: Majors Raúl Castro and Ernesto ("Che") Guevara...
...principle (the U.S. signed the 1936 nonintervention agreement of Buenos Aires). Today the principle of nonintervention, far more than a weapon against out-of-date U.S. meddling, is a rule of law that must apply to all of the hemisphere's nations. As Colombian President Alberto Lleras Camargo (onetime head of the OAS) once said: "A group of democratic nations may destroy an antidemocratic government by coercion and intervention. But who is going to guarantee that a coalition of antidemocratic governments will not proceed in this identical form against a pure and democratic regime...
...half functioning. Forced into a 1957 alliance to overthrow Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the perpetually warring Liberal and Conservative parties invented a rigid agreement to divide political power equally for the next 16 years. Every political organism, from Congress to town councils, was neatly bisected. Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo last August took the first four-year stint as President, with the understanding that he would be succeeded by a Conservative...
...Colombia, he was accredited to the government of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Distinctly not one of the diplomat types who deem it a simple duty to stay close to the boss, Spanish-fluent Philip Bonsai moved with ease among intellectuals and politicos in Colombia. Among them was Alberto Lleras Camargo, a leading Rojas oppositionist. Rojas put pressure on the State Department and the U.S. eventually withdrew Bonsai, but the urbane diplomat became a hero among Latin Americans as knowing the difference between dictators and democrats. Seventeen months later Bonsai had the pleasure of going to Bogota as a member...
President Alberto Lleras Camargo called a state of siege and sent 15 armored cars and halftracks to ring the house where ex-Dictator Rojas has been living since he was allowed home from exile two months ago. The troops hauled Rojas out, flew him to the coast, put him aboard the frigate Capitán Tono for a Caribbean cruise of indefinite duration...