Word: colombia
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...Brazil's coffee trees. Now, with the Southern Hemisphere's winter half gone and no hurtful frost so far, Brazil expects to have a much better crop this year-14 million to 16 million bags, double last year's harvest. Two other big coffee producers, Colombia and El Salvador, are fearful of a further decline in prices, and have been selling their large 1977 crops early...
...Ditch will be open to ships from any nation. A number of the Latin American governments most openly in favor of turning the zone over to Panama have quietly urged the U.S. to insist on this guarantee. Otherwise, ask representatives from such heavy canal users as Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Peru, how could they be certain that some future Panamanian ruler might not shut off the canal to their ships in a totally unforeseeable squabble? Largely because of this agreement, General George Brown, Chairman .of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he is "satisfied" with the negotiations...
...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...