Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once they all seemed to agree," smiled Peru's President Manuel Prado last week as a chorus of assent from Latin American Presidents answered his call for a hemisphere-wide conference on disarmament. The U.S. Department of State hastened to approve the idea. Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay agreed to meet, and Argentine President Arturo Frondizi cabled "my firmest support...
Died. Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, 73, two-term (1934-38, 1942-45) President of Colombia, who pushed through a series of economic reforms, tried to mediate between Liberals and Conservatives in Colombia's bloody civil war but was forced into exile (1952) by Conservative mobs who burned his home; in London, where he was serving as ambassador after returning to favor...
...inspired anti-U.S. outbreak like the riots in Bogotá in 1948. But the U.S. is by no means isolated and embattled. Major hemisphere nations, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, have friendly and responsible governments and people. Such authentically liberal chiefs of state as Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia and Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela are increasingly wondering about Castro. Betancourt fortnight ago barred a visit by the Cuba revolution's foremost proCommunists: Majors Raúl Castro and Ernesto ("Che") Guevara...
...Treaty Writer. The causes are historical, emotional, economic and political. They go back to the turn of the century, when President Theodore Roosevelt became convinced that the U.S. must build a canal through the section of the isthmus then controlled by Colombia ("I do not think that the Bogotá lot of jack rabbits should be allowed permanently to bar one of the future highways of civilization"). Sounded out by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a Frenchman and chief engineer in Ferdinand de Lesseps' unsuccessful earlier attempt to build a Panama Canal. President Roosevelt gave tacit support to a Panamanian revolution...
...year later in Bogota, Colombia, Castro was involved in a student congress which had a core of well-organized Communists. The congress issued a protest against American policies. There can be no doubt that Castro then had anti-American, if not Communist sentiments...