Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin American republics will run to about $3.7 billion-a hefty 12% above the 1955 mark, and only $20 million or so below the alltime peak reached during the Korean war year of 1951. The U.S.'s five biggest Latin American customers in 1956: Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and Brazil, in that order...
Largely obscured by more dramatic conflicts in Europe, Africa and Asia, one of history's bloodiest struggles goes silently on in Colombia. In the eight-year-old strife between the Colombian army and anti-government guerrillas, the death toll, according to President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, tops 100,000-three times greater than battle deaths among U.S. forces in Korea-in a country with a population of only 13 million. Last week TIME correspondent Piero Saporiti toured the front lines of this almost-forgotten battleground. His report...
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...quiet effectiveness that would win medals in war, did not wait for the necessary final consent from Egypt's Premier Nasser to assemble the first big contingent of policemen. He set up a U.N. staging area outside Naples, began assembling there 6,000 soldiers from Denmark, Norway, Canada, Colombia. Finland. India and Sweden, for the hop into the Suez area. As they got set. Russia put out a warning that its "volunteers'" would be "allowed" to go into the Middle East un less the British, French and Israeli forces withdrew from Egyptian soil. Red China joined in with...
...cheap electric power are all that would be needed to enable the marvelously fertile Cauca valley to supply food for at least the entire country. Then, once mechanization of agriculture has been achieved, largely untapped sources of oil, coal, and iron are sufficient to support the conversion of Colombia into a modern industrial state. Her greatest tragedy is that the capital she desperately needs for economic development is instead being used to support an oppressive dictatorship...