Word: cartagena
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Colombian coffee is good and I have taken it in the drab little cafés on the misty Bogota savannah, in subtropical Gali and industrial Medellin, as well as in picturesque Cartagena, sultry Santa Marta and sandy Barranquilla. But certainly it is not worth ten centavos [TIME...
...mulo Gallegos. Last week, she lay at anchor off the Colombian coast, while her handsome senior officer, Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant, went inland to pay courtesy calls in Bogota. An urgent order flashed from Whitehall: proceed without delay to British Honduras. Taking Sir William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The occasion for this showing of the flag: "Possible incidents staged by irresponsible elements in neighboring Guatemala...
...Cathedral (the Church later took him back). His debtors failed him; his accounts were snarled; in 1592, 1597 and perhaps again in 1602, he was clapped in jail for indebtedness to the State. Later he applied for a job in the New World-possibly as paymaster of galleys in Cartagena, Colombia. He was turned down. Even after Don Quixote appeared (1605), Cervantes never knew much prosperity...
...Ospina Perez, the Conservative candidate, won. Gaitan ran third. But he polled a stupendous vote (about 358,957), mostly in the cities where the workers liked his brand of rabble-rousing. In Bogota, Colombia's capital, which calls itself the South American Athens, and in the ports of Cartagena and Barranquilla (but not in Medellin -see below), Gaitan received more votes than Ospina and Turbay together...
Cartageneros knew that their battle with the other ports would be hard, that the job of moving into the mainstream of modern life would not be easy. But they had big plans. A fine new hotel set on a sand beach was already helping to establish Cartagena as a tourist center. The Great Colombian Fleet, established jointly by Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, had just gone into operation with eight newly purchased ships; soon the vessels would bring cargoes and tourists...