Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latin America's most celebrated political refugee went free last week. Looking plumper and paler after five years of jail-like sanctuary in Colombia's embassy in Lima, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 59, arrived safely in Mexico City. The famed leader of Peru's Indian masses, who had been accused of masterminding a bloody revolt in 1948, doffed his floppy hat and bowed to a cheering crowd that...
...inspector's shutdown, newest in a five-year series of official and unofficial anti-Protestant blows in Colombia, stems from an agreement between the government and the Vatican. The agreement makes the islands one of 18 Colombian "mission territories" reserved to Catholics. It was signed three years ago, when Catholic, arch-Conservative Laureano Gómez was President...
Peru's Foreign Office announced last week that diplomatic negotiations with Colombia in Bogotá had produced a neighborly agreement for the ending of Latin America's most celebrated case of political asylum: that of Peruvian Leftist Leader Haya de la Torre, accused of heading an abortive revolution in 1948. A refugee in Colombia's Lima embassy since 1949, Haya will probably be allowed to go into exile in Uruguay...
...South America. The Brazilian government, alarmed by the angry murmuring in America del Norte, hurriedly invited four U.S. housewives to travel south, all expenses paid, to see for themselves the real cause of the trouble-scarcity caused by drought, frost and underplanting by Brazilian farmers. A spokesman from Colombia talked darkly of a plot by the "tea interests," and one from El Salvador advised the U.S. to quit demanding nickel coffee until it resumed making $1,000 automobiles...
After Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrew the ultra-Conservative regime of President Laureano Gomez last summer, some U.S. Protestant missionaries hopefully reported an apparent slackening in government restrictions on Protestants in Colombia. But President Rojas is a Conservative too, and state Catholicism is a prime plank of any Conservative government in Colombia. Last September the Rojas regime banned Protestant activity in 18 "mission territories" in remote parts of the country. Last week the government announced a further curb: Protestants may no longer engage in religious activities outside their churches, though within the churches they will not be molested...