Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocks down the street, a short, muscular lawyer with piercing black eyes stepped briskly out of his office. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, rabble-rousing leader of Colombia's Liberal Party, was also luncheon-bound. As he crossed the sidewalk, a man with a pistol in his hand slipped up behind him, fired four shots into his neck and shoulders...
...Flags. To Colombia's working classes, Gaitán had 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...
President Ospina Pérez went on the radio, denounced Gaitán's assassination, blamed the Communists for the upheaval that had stained Colombia's longtime reputation for orderly and democratic rule. This week, as a postscript, Colombia broke diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...
...soon as Colombia's ruddy-faced Foreign Minister Laureano Gómez had been elected conference president, the economic issue was opened. It was Mexico's eloquent Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet who ripped into it. "Of course [European] reconstruction is urgent," he argued, "but is development less urgent when the peoples who seek it live as misrably as most of those who clamor for reconstruction?" Latin America's Indian millions, he thundered, are "the martyrs of peace...
Turning to the 30-ft. mural behind him depicting Simón Bolívar's inaugural in 1821 as Colombia's President, George Marshall recalled that Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. had died leading U.S. troops on Okinawa in World War II. That Buckner, who gave his life, bore "the name of your great Liberator," he said, "certainly indicates something of our common purpose and our common bond...