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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...
Thanks for telling us about the graft in Colombia. Now we want the names of the grafters for our tribunals...
Medellin, Colombia...
...Secretary of State proclaimed a "new dialogue" in 1973, he has canceled three announced trips to the southern half of the hemisphere. Last week Kissinger finally got the new dialogue going with visits to Venezuela, Peru and Brazil. This week, to wind up his tour, he will stop in Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala...
...really does care, but not everyone was convinced. In Venezuela, one columnist noted sarcastically: "During the past few days, certain government officials have been very excited. We can't tell whether to attribute the excitement to the visit of Henry Kissinger or the visit of Raquel Welch." Colombia's left-wing weekly Alternativa, arguing that Kissinger was not coming to negotiate but to impose conditions, ran a full-page cartoon of the Secretary declaring, "The Guatemala earthquake was just a warning...