Word: colombia
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...people had been killed and 300 wounded in two days and a night of fighting and demonstrating. The rioting at times had been so fierce that some Latin American diplomats dubbed it el Limazo, a reference to the bloody riots known as el Bogotazo. which took place in Bogota, Colombia, 27 years...
...builds exquisite doll houses from bits of literary history, fantasy and skeptical philosophy. He has become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences on contemporary U.S. fiction. But the Latin appetite for the big bite has in recent years produced one unquestionable masterpiece: in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez completely and gloriously occupied his mythical territory of Macondo, a tropical Yoknapatawpha...
Died. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 74, Colombian caudillo (1953-57); of a heart attack; in Malgar, Colombia. Installed as President in a bloodless 1953 golpe, Rojas ruled in dictatorial fashion until an appetite for graft (he acquired at least nine ranches as President) eroded army support and led to his ouster in 1957. The next year he returned from exile and became the focus of opposition to the ruling Liberal-Conservative National Front, nearly returning to power in the hotly contested election...
...Harvard Lampoon has announced the election of its board of officers for 1975: George Rohr '76 of Bogota, Colombia and Quincy House, President; Sanford J. Frank '76 of Springfield and Kirkland House, Treasurer; Mark P. O'Donnell '76 of Cleveland, Ohio and Lowell House, Ibis; Kurt B. Andersen '76 of Omaha, Neb. and Dudley House, Narthex; Charles P. Steinbruegge '76 of Atlanta, Ga. and Lowell House, Sanctum; Richard P. Tierney '76 of Newton and Mather House, Sackbut; Edward L. Trimble '76 of Baltimore and Lowell House, Hautboy; Stephen E. Pollack '77 of Detroit and Quincy House, Advertising Manager; and Sanford...
...Cuba. Earlier, there had been favorable reaction to the new hands-off U.S. policy, which Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs William D. Rogers described at Quito as "healthy." But Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica, which had co-sponsored the Cuban measure with Venezuela and Colombia, was openly bitter. "We have helped the United States when they needed us," he complained, "but now that we need their help, they do nothing." After the Cuban proposal failed, some Latin American newspapers, and even diplomats, claimed that the OAS was dead. That clearly was not the case. However...