Word: capitolio
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Shortly before 1 p.m., a light rain swept across Bogotá, wetting the columns of the Capitolio. There the ninth International Conference of American States had been in session for a fortnight on matters of high moment to the hemisphere-the industrial upbuilding of Latin America, the problem of Communism in the Americas. As the rain began to fall, most meetings adjourned for lunch...
...been an enshrined hero. For a month, they had burned with resentment because Conservative Party Leader Laureano Gómez had kept him from being a delegate to the International Conference. As Gaitán lay on the surgeon's table, his hysterical supporters stormed the Capitolio, screaming, "Death to Laureano...
...Bogotá's narrow, crowded streets, diplomats needed half an hour to drive ten blocks to the opening session of the ninth International Conference of American States. It took them hardly longer to get down to business, once they convened in the refurbished brownstone Capitolio Nacional. For these representatives of the 21 American republics, two issues overshadowed all others: 1) U.S. economic aid for Latin America, the subject latinos held most vital; 2) Communism in the hemisphere, and how to deal with...
...bronze and marble conference halls of Cuba's Capitolio Nacional the delegates paid lip service to the ideals of the Geneva draft; but the real news was made in the cafés and lobbies where, over their frozen daiquiris, the delegates were busy planning more restrictions. The Moslem countries prepared a Middle East Bloc, to be developed by a series of government five-and twelve-year plans; the Argentines wanted a similar preference bloc in South America; the Soviet satellites (three of whom had sent representatives to Havana even though Russia had not) talked of further tightening their...
...week's end, Menéndez' body lay in state in the great marble Capitolio in Havana, where thousands passed his bier. All over Cuba sugar workers staged brief protest strikes. Cuba's Communists, who had been wasting away for months, now had a martyr, and they would make the most...