Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a public complaint might do me harm in other police states, such as Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, etc., please withhold my name...
...their splendor, many of the buildings and details that caught Kelemen's eye were in a crumbling state. Even in a few years' time, "the volcano of Paricutin in Mexico . . . floods in Guatemala, seismic catastrophes in El Salvador and Ecuador, civil strife in Colombia and an earthquake in Cuzco have all taken a tragic toll." Worst of all, according to Kelemen: civil authorities who are letting local masterpieces deteriorate through neglect-or are tearing them down to make way for widened streets and modern buildings...
...Colombia's President Laureano Gómez buried his head in a glistening sand pile of rhetoric. Said he to his people at the end of his first year in office: the state of the nation is an almost unblemished "panorama of felicity." His administration has contained the cost of living, encouraged foreign capital, sent forces to fight in Korea. "The people's happiness would be perfect, their progress would have increased indescribably . . . if there had not existed disorder which perturbed the picture...
This description could hardly be further from reality. Colombia is not a panorama of felicity, but a spectacle of violence unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. For two years, a brutal civil war, pitting the Conservative government against Liberal opponents, has ravaged great portions of the country. Upwards of 20,000 people have been killed. Farmers dispossessed by the police have formed guerrilla gangs out for vengeance and supplies (see below). Meanwhile, under a "state of siege" now 21 months old, aging (62) authoritarian Laureano Gómez rules highhandedly...
Careless Love. In Bogotá, Colombia, Matilde Ramirez applied for a marriage license and learned that she was already legally married because her ex-fiancé, using their previous license to marry another girl, had not bothered to change the names...