Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's lightweight race on the Charles, Tech's varsity and jayvees finished third behind Harvard and Colombia...
...Debate Council plays host of the Ivy Leavue Debate Conference from early this afternoon to early tomorrow afternoon with representatives from the College, Yale, Princeton, Colombia, Dartmouth, and Pennsylvania all scheduled to participate...
...Colombia. Sixty years of exemplary constitutional progress ended in the bloody 1948 Bogotá uprising. Since November 1949, a conservative regime has ruled by state of siege, and undeclared civil war has cost an estimated 20,000 lives...
...their strong men, have come from the army. Currently, military men preside over eleven Latino governments. Instead of confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized political party" in every country except Costa Rica, Uruguay, Chile and perhaps Colombia. In many countries, the army consumes an inordinate share of the national income, and fosters the belief that it alone is fit to rule. It was armed power that put Batista back in Cuba. Other men had the votes; he had the guns...
...Wanted? Because revolutions often become epidemic, some fear that the Batista coup and last week's Bolivian revolt may be followed by explosions elsewhere, possibly in Ecuador or Colombia. But nobody in Latin America, except the Communists and the neo-fascist fringe, professes to want any other kind of government except democracy. In the long run, as hunger and ignorance are dealt with, democracy may yet win in Latin America, though it is likely to be quite different from the U.S. variety...