Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bogota's plush-and-gold Colon theater, 500 blue-ribboned Conservative delegates last week nominated pouchy-eyed Laureano Gomez, 60, as their candidate in next month's presidential elections. In Colombia, which has seen little peace since the Bogota uprising of April 9, 1948, this amounted to a declaration of bitter political-if not civil...
Laureano (no other name is needed to identify him in Colombia) is the country's Mr. Conservative, a blown-in-the-bottle Bourbon whom Liberals passionately hate. On the night of the April 9 riots, mobs of frenzied men seeking to avenge the assassination of Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, surged through Bogota's gutted streets screaming: "We want the head of Laureano!" At that time Laureano was presiding over the Bogota hemispheric conference as Colombia's foreign minister. He barely escaped the rioters (they burned down his house and the plant of his newspaper El Siglo...
...American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), took another step last week to help carry out President Truman's Point Four development program in South America. The bank announced that a team of nine experts, headed by ex-Brain Truster Lauchlin Currie, would spend three months studying ways to increase Colombia's wealth...
Unlike other World Bank surveys, this one began with President Eugene R. Black's announcement that the bank planned to lend Colombia $5-$10 million, possibly before the survey is finished. But the experts, said Black, will range far beyond the projects the bank may decide to finance. At government invitation, they will examine the whole Colombian economy, choosing the likeliest places where private investment, under Point Four auspices, might come in and help in the job of developing the country's resources...
...Colombia and the Bank will split the costs of the survey, which was planned in part as a trial run for future Bank-sponsored Point Four scouting parties...