Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From San Andres in mountainous Huila Department came bloody news: a band of Conservative partisans had swept through town and, in the pattern of Colombia's decade-long, interparty war, massacred 38 men, women and children, mostly from Liberal families. Then, in Bogota, citizens spotted black-suited gunslingers drifting into town...
...Colombia security police soon sniffed out the timetable of the plot: in three days, right-wing fanatics and cashiered army officers would rise throughout the country. In Bogota, 2,000 rebels, divided into "death brigades," would shoot up both chambers of Congress and assassinate government leaders, hoping to topple the Conservative-Liberal coalition regime and restore to power former Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who was ousted 18 months...
...Santiago Luis Copello and Antonio Caggiano of Argentina, Crisanto Luque of Colombia, Carlos Maria de la Torre of Ecuador and Jaime de Barros Camara of Brazil...
...issue. Hardly had the magazine reached subscribers when the mail began to pour in-from 49 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Some builders did not bother to write; they simply hopped a plane and flew in. The flood of mail increased-from the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, British Honduras, Britain, France, Germany and as far away as New Zealand. Bartling does not know when he can get around to answering all the inquiries, but he's glad that he now has pen pals all over the world...
...that Pius XII "was able to make a tormented world feel the attraction of Christian goodness." Protestants in Spain, Colombia and Italy never felt this Christian goodness at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church during his reign...