Word: colombia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Host was Colombia's newly inaugurated President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, who, with Frei, was joined by Venezuela's President Raúl Leoni, Ecuador's former President Galo Plaza Lasso, who substituted for Ecuador's Interim President Clemente Yerovi Indaburu, and Peru's former Premier Fernando Schwalb, who was filling in for President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Among the balls, banquets and other ceremonial gatherings, the five met to discuss mutual economic and industrial development and the problems of the ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled...
...governments to relax press censorship and winning a reputation as an implacable foe of dictatorships both right and left, which he amply documented in articles and books (Freedom Is My Beat, Fidel Castro: Rebel-Liberator or Dictator?); of a heart attack; while covering an economics conference in Bogota, Colombia (see THE WORLD...
...Colombia, Economist Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 58, candidate of the country's faltering National Front coalition of liberals and conservatives, took office with one big strike against him. In the March elections, the Front won only 162 of Congress' 306 seats, far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and Lleras Restrepo's program of welfare and land reform will face an ob streperous opposition led by ex-Dictator (1953-57) Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. But Lleras Restrepo can always fall back on the 15-month-old state of siege declared by former President Guillermo Leon Valencia, empowering...
Aerial photos taken over the sparse, seasonally flooded fields of northern Colombia-50 miles east of Monteria in the San Jorge River district-first revealed what even the earliest conquistadors overlooked or could not see: more than 1,400 sq. mi. of intricate clay corrugations, built generally at right angles to the several rivers in the area and standing in bold relief among the numerous waterways. The ridges are as much as five feet high, 20 feet wide, and a mile long. Other ridges run in checkerboard patterns, while a third type extends in long parallels without apparent orientation...
...shell mound near the area, the newly discovered culture goes back to 3090 B.C., making it the oldest pottery site recorded in the New World. Only within recent years has earth-moving equipment, mechanized farming and malaria control made a 20th century dent on the ridged plains of Colombia...