Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been harvested, so it did not cut exports immediately, but now the impact of the shortage has hit. It will continue to be felt for quite a while too, since newly planted coffee trees take three years to come into production, and output in other countries, such as Colombia, cannot make up for the losses in Brazil...
...center of Miami. They now own or control an estimated 8,000 businesses and have a spending power of $1.5 billion. Many of them have been unable to re-create their old lives, however. Alfredo Perez, for example, went to law school in Havana, but after fleeing to Colombia, then to Puerto Rico, he arrived penniless and discouraged in Miami in 1967. The need for Cuban-trained lawyers in Miami being totally nonexistent, Perez finally got a job mowing lawns. He is the kind of man who likes to take an intellectual interest in his work. He enrolled...
...measures bode ill for the foreign exiles living in Argentina. A large number of political refugees from right-wing repression in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil have sought asylum in Argentina over the years. There is nowhere for them to go now in South America except Venezuela and Colombia, and they would be well advised to stay away from the latter. The Chilean secret police force, operating in Argentina, has rounded up 1300 refugees (Garcia Marquez, N.Y. Times 5/8/76) and will probably try to return them to Chile...
House Arrest. The coup left Venezuela and Colombia as the only sizable South American countries not ruled by military regimes, either leftist or rightist. The Argentine takeover was executed with clockwork precision, following a blueprint drawn up weeks earlier. As Mrs. Perón, 45, was being flown to comfortable house arrest in the country's scenic lake district, troops blocked the roads leading out of Buenos Aires and stationed guards at key factories and the headquarters of the leading labor unions and moved into the capital's street intersections. Meanwhile, a barrage of communiqués vested...
Medellin, Colombia...