Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shiny new hangar near Barranquilla, Colombia, a team of Soviet technicians has been assembling a plane that looks like a small bullet with wings. The stubby little jet, known as the "Codling" to NATO plane spotters and as YAK-40 to its builders, is the leading edge of a Soviet thrust into Western aviation markets. The YAKs are coming...
...eager to sell YAKs abroad, principally to developing countries that lack modern airport facilities. The agency gives exceptionally easy credit terms. For the Colombians, they were no money down with 15 years to pay at 2% interest. The Soviets have also offered to build a factory in Colombia that would supply YAKs to the rest of the Western Hemisphere. Colombian officials have not accepted the deal, but they have let the Russians assemble a sample plane at Barranquilla that will soon begin demonstration flights in ten countries...
...time Rojas Pinilla returned to Colombia in 1958, the politicos had stitched together the cozy National Front coalition through which the Conservatives and the Liberals alternate the presidency every four years. Last year, however, the former dictator-contrary to the gentleman's agreement of the National Front-entered the race as a Conservative-and lost to the official candidate, Misael Pastrana Barrero, by only 1.5% of the total vote...
...first person to call on migrants pouring into the slums from depressed rural areas is usually an ANAPO recruiter. The party obtains jobs for 400 people a month in Bogota alone, offers free medical and dental care to members. With 24 cities of 100,000 or more people in Colombia (overall population: 21 million), that kind of urban organization could lead to an ANAPO victory in the 1974 elections. The established parties are painfully aware of that, and President Pastrana is pressing Congress for basic educational, agrarian and urban reorms. Meanwhile, inflation is increasing while the price of Colombia...
...movement are strongly nationalistic and directed to a large degree against foreign investment. ANAPO, using the same technique, calls for a state takeover of all mineral wealth, the import-export trade and the banking system. A probable target might be some of the $700 million private U.S. stake in Colombia, half of it in oil. But Rojas Pinilla himself does not openly oppose foreign investment...