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Amid setbacks elsewhere in Latin America, democracy won a signal victory in Colombia. For four years President Alberto Lleras Camargo, a journalist and educator turned statesman, has toiled doggedly for stability, and for enough moderation of age-old political hatreds to permit his nation to haul itself out of the 19th century into the 20th. Next month his term as President ends. Lleras, a Liberal, is seeing to it that his office will be turned over to a Conservative, a man whose party he opposes, but whose right to peaceful succession* he firmly upholds...
Raising his voice to his high oratorical pitch, Castro cried again that he was a Communist ("We reaffirm that we are Marxist-Leninists"), bitterly attacked the U.S. ("repugnantly shameful, criminal, odious") and Colombia's Lleras Camargo ("that bilious character") for leading the diplomatic moves against him. But his real message seemed to be to those Latin American nations who might be wondering about his own intentions. Castro swore that his new arms were not for export, and in the favorite nobody-here-but-us-chickens rhetoric of Communism added: "We know that only the peoples themselves can carry...
Solidarity and Safety. After spending the night in Los Núñez, the Venezuelan version of the White House, the Kennedys planned to jet off for Bogotá, where the President would confer with Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo, another good South American friend of the U.S. As it was originally conceived. President Kennedy's trip to Latin America had been seen as a ritualistic way for the U.S. to demonstrate the importance it places on hemispheric solidarity. Then, after the commitments were made, came the deep worries about the physical safety of John and Jacqueline...
...three-day trip would carry risks for the Kennedys. Although the hosts will be old U.S. friends-Governor Luis Munõz Marin of Puerto Rico. Presidents Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia-the latter two nations hold riotous bands of leftist students and workers, with disciplined Communists to lead them. Last week in Caracas (where Vice President Nixon was set upon by a Red-incited mob in 1958) leftist organizers in the high schools burned two cars and a bus, passed out leaflets exhorting the capital to "receive Kennedy as it did Nixon...
...issue. Panama wisely began an integrated plan of land development in 1956; Venezuela, starting in 1959. has already moved 30,000 new farm families onto 2,500,000 acres under President Romulo Betancourt's crash program. Brazil's Janio Quadros and Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo are pushing comprehensive reform and agrarian-development laws through their Congress...