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Attacks from Within. Liberal Alberto Lleras Camargo, who became Colombia's first coalition President in 1958, was an able administrator who held the frente together by sheer statesmanship. Conservative Valencia, 55, a courtly, scholarly lawyer, lacks his predecessor's élan and political acumen. When his budget came before Congress last October, his own party attacked it as inflationary. But Valencia, the son of Colombia's most revered poet and a lover of poetry himself, has little patience for anything so prosaic as economics. Famed for his gallantry to the ladies and a romantic passion for hunting...
...TIME, June 26). But that is about the only bright spot. The cost of living has zoomed 54% in eight months, unemployment is running 10%, trade and budget deficits remain dangerously high. Colombia's ambitious, ten-year development program-begun in 1958 under the administration of Alberto Lleras Camargo-is threatened by graft and inefficiency. Scandals have erupted everywhere, from the import license office to government housing projects. As the government sinks deeper into trouble, the country's Liberal-Conservative coalition is gradually fragmenting into its old warring factions. "Revolution is the only solution," urges Rojas. "This government...
...Alberto Lleras Camargo, twice President (1945-46, 1958-62) of Colombia, onetime O.A.S. secretary-general-LL.D. The vision of Bolivar finds contemporary expression in the life of this able son of the New World...
That Mann would scuttle the Alliance was not unexpected in Latin America. Last November, former President Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia, a firm friend of the United States and of the Alliance, refused to head the inter-American committee which will administer the Alliance because he mistrusted Mann's views on social reform. But that the Alliance should be abandoned with so little ceremony was not foreseen. Mann's statement in effect gives a green light to the military in Latin America. With rightist elements in Brazil and eleswhere clamoring for military take-over in their countries, it will...
...Rojas Pinilla granted an amnesty; when that failed, he bombed villages harboring bandits and imprisoned entire communities. In 1958, the Liberals and Conservatives finally patched up their differences and formed the Frente Nacional coalition, hoping to restore peace. But the violence raged on. Besides military action, President Alberto Lleras Camargo tried buying off the bandits; one leader collected $15,000, then hurried back to the hills, where he ran his grisly toll to 592 murders before he himself was killed last year. Not until President Guillermo Leon Valencia was elected in 1962 did the bandit war take a turn...