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...voice thundered, amplified by a bullhorn: "Who wants electricity connected?" Crews scrambled to string up power lines. "Who does not have the telephone he applied for?" Another utility crew rushed to work. Behind the bellowing bullhorn stood a round-faced, chunky woman who is known to Colombia's poor as "La Capitana del Pueblo"-the captain of the people. Once, when pleas for water had gone unheeded, La Capitana and a work crew manned picks and shovels to unearth a water main and hooked up public taps -without city help or approval...
Feet First. Some might call it pure demagoguery, but Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 37, has not earned her reputation as a defender of the poor by sitting around in Colombia's lavish private clubs. Maria Eugenia is the force behind a growing wave of populism. As her political power grows, the nation's Liberal and Conservative parties, which offer little more than Tweedledum and Tweedledee choices, are growing downright panicky...
...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...
Outside Chile, Allende is rapidly winning acceptance. On a recent ten-day swing through Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, he won pledges of moral support for his sweeping nationalization of American-owned firms. Even Argentina's jittery military regime has begun to regard its Marxist neighbor as just another striving nationalist. The Communist countries have been careful not to embrace Allende too eagerly, for fear that they might do him more harm than good. For that reason, Fidel Castro refused an invitation to Allende's inauguration last year; he is due to arrive in Santiago for his first visit...