Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colombia's authoritative Tiempo praised Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden's democratic intentions, but deplored his "mistaken policy" in Argentina. Grizzled old Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Foreign Minister, declared that he "could not see why Mexico, having kept relations with the previous [Argentine] regime, whose legality was questionable, should not now continue relations with [Perón] who as far as I know has been legally elected."* Brazil decided to send its ambassador back...
...introduced a steep profits tax, despite a concession wangled from Ubico forbidding new taxation on United Fruit till 1981. Bargaining is tough. With huge new plantations in the Dominican Republic ready to sprout bananas by 1947, United Fruit can threaten to shut down in Guatemala, as it did in Colombia when disease and the government moved...
Lochinvar Foiled. Near Bogota, Colombia, down came a young man's airplane, out ran the rancher's daughter. Up from a clump of bushes rose Rancher Jose Pastarana, lassoed his eloping daughter. Away flew the young...
Last week the Times glowed: "Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel of Colombia, formally opening yesterday's session, hoped that the Assembly might become 'the town meeting of the world.' . . . Let us forget the scarecrow of the 'superstate' and put this vision in its place." Said Secretary Byrnes: "We have learned from experience. ... I pledge full and wholehearted cooperation...
...when he was Ambassador to Colombia, he was alarmed by the presence of the German-operated airline Scadta so near the Panama Canal. Well aware that Pan American Airways controlled Scadta and could throw out the Germans, Braden turned the heat on Pan Am through Washington, got action, and demonstrated one of his favorite theses: that Naziism, wherever and however it infiltrated Latin America, had to be and could be eradicated...