Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panama Canal treaty. He warned that "each word pronounced" in the rancorous debate in the U.S. over the treaty "will have a very deep impact on Latin America." During dinner that night, Pérez, who heads one of South America's two democracies (the other: Colombia), praised Carter's support of nuclear nonproliferation and human rights. But he also pressed for U.S. actions to match Carter's words...
...guys are clearly losing the battle. Last year Feds in the Southeast seized roughly 1.4 million lbs. of marijuana, with a street value of $420 million, and 533 lbs. of cocaine worth $133 million. But perhaps ten times that amount got through. A pound of marijuana costs $40 in Colombia and brings $500 in New York. Says Don Turnbaugh, chief of Customs patrol in Miami: "The situation is out of control. We're fighting at best a holding action. To think of stopping them is absurd...
...three Latin American countries who became Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (1945-47); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Brash yet amiable, Braden was a spokesman for democratic liberties in the Western Hemisphere, ever on the crusade against dictatorship. In 1940, as Ambassador to Colombia, he managed the firing of pro-Nazi pilots who endangered the Panama Canal. As fervently anti-Communist as he was anti-Nazi, Braden later took a firm cold war stance, calling for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
Perhaps the sweetest reminder of home is the dance party, costing up to $15 a couple, where Latin-style bands play the marimba of Guatemala, the cumbia of Colombia, and Puerto Rican salsa. A band may be flown specially from Puerto Rico or Central America for the event, if enough tickets can be sold. Otherwise there is plenty of local talent, such as Los Estrellos Latinos de Boston...
...Spanish who reached Peru in the 16th century were primarily interested in gold. But later visitors have been even more impressed with the Inca highway system, stretching from the ancient capital at Cuzco north into Colombia and south well into Chile. Paved with massive, hand-hewn blocks of stone, the roads have survived the centuries all but intact. The Route of the Incas by Jacques Soustelle (Viking; unpaged; $35) evokes the grandeur of the vanished Inca empire and explains why a people who never used the wheel built such a road network. Hans Silvester's striking photographs capture...