Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosalynn sat through 13 two-hour briefings on the area's political and economic problems. She also practiced her Spanish; she knows no Portuguese, the language of the biggest country she will visit ?Brazil. Mrs. Carter's itinerary takes her to four democracies (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright affectionate one in some...
...years to join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the Isthmus of Panama. Historian David McCullough, 44, author of The Johnstown Flood and The Great Bridge, skirts such contemporary controversies as U.S. control over the Canal Zone. There is matter enough for him in history. The isthmus belonged to Colombia until 1903, when the U.S., under Teddy Roosevelt, encouraged a local revolt and sent American warships to block the landing of Colombian troops. Congressional doves objected to the gunboat diplomacy, but they were drowned out by T.R.'s perorations on manifest destiny. With the birth of the U.S.-sponsored...
...vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...
Foreign black star listings include seven fields in Colombia; three in Australia; Rhodes and Corfu in Greece; and eleven others, including Iran's huge airport at Tehran...
Plantation Profits. There are some very big exceptions. In Colombia, surging coffee revenues have been accompanied by a riptide of 26% inflation. There, the oligarchic semiofficial Fedecafe sets coffee policies and controls 42% of the trade, while 28 private exporting companies dominate the rest of the market in high-quality beans. The nation's 130,000 backlot growers cannot afford soaring prices for fertilizers, fungicides and equipment. Except in Central America and Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias...