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...election, the candidate who drew the crowds was Arnulfo Arias, 62, the messianic ex-President and self-proclaimed champion of the masses. But when the cheering stopped last week, the man who got the votes was Marco Aurelio Robles, 58, the government candidate and cousin of President Roberto F. Chiari, who constitutionally cannot succeed himself. In a stunning upset, Robles swept most of the backland provinces and sliced into some urban strongholds where Arias was supposed to be unbeatable. The final count: Robles 134,627, Arias...
Cattle & the Canal. The son of a judge, Robles displays none of the big money usually associated with political success in Panama. Though his kinsman Chiari is one of the country's richest men, Robles himself lives with his schoolteacher wife and three children in a mortgaged, three-bedroom house in Panama City. He held a string of government jobs before Chiari appointed him Minister of Government and Justice in 1960. Panamanians quickly found him to be an honest, extremely determined administrator. When he noticed that stray cattle were causing a number of serious auto accidents and that nobody...
...stump during the campaign, Robles was no match for Arias and his fiery oratory. But he strongly supported the Chiari government's demands for revision of the canal treaty with the U.S. and pledged to "rescue for our country the commerce of the Canal Zone, which should have been rightfully ours since 1903." In the slums and backlands, he promised to provide unemployment compensation and some moderate reforms in housing and schools. Repeatedly, he professed independence of the country's powerful ruling elite: "I'm not an oligarch, and not responsible to them." That remains...
...relations, the two governments would designate special ambassadors to "carry out discussions and negotiations with the objective of reaching a fair and just agreement." But Johnson was infuriated by press and radio reports from Panama that interpreted the OAS formula as a triumph for Panamanian President Roberto F. Chiari and a specific U.S. commitment to renegotiate the treaty...
...southern Mexico to the jungles of northwest Colombia with the idea of building a new canal-at sea level and hence without the need for locks. *In 1945 Congress ordered the first broad investigation of new routes; at least 30 were considered. When Panama's President Roberto F. Chiari visited Washington in 1962, President Kennedy told him that any renegotiated treaty would have to take into account U.S. plans for a new canal...