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...Tornillo v. Miami Herald [April 29]: I am amazed that the basic right to reply in case of offensive or inaccurate newspaper reports is being questioned in the U.S. In Colombia, a 1944 law gives all citizens (not only political candidates) the right to have a reply published within three days. If the paper does not comply, the citizen may resort to a special judicial procedure in which the judge decides in 48 hours...
Medellin, Colombia...
...cartel, named Union de Paises Exportadores del Banano (Union of Banana Exporting Countries), was formed by Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It proposes to slap a $1 export tax on every 40-lb. box of bananas leaving Latin America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
Club members vote every three months on where they would like to go. Freelandia has recently obtained landing rights in Hong Kong, Colombia and Yugoslavia, and is negotiating for permission to land in Greece, Turkey, India, Bali, Afganistan, Tahiti and Australia. Eventually the club hopes to offer round-the-world flights for $300 to $400 (on commercial airlines that would cost about...
...twelve candidates ranging from the extreme left to the far right. This was seen by political observers as a trend toward a two-party system that, if it continues, could give the country a more stable political system. Of the eleven countries in South America, Venezuela along with Colombia, and possibly Argentina, are the only working democracies. The big loser in the election was former Dictator Perez Jimenez, who had called on his followers to boycott the balloting. The only candidate supporting Perez Jimenez received a minuscule .68% of the vote, a showing so poor that many now believe that...