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...months, the problems of Colombia have been growing from serious to worse. Under President Guillermo León Valencia, the cost of living has soared 50%, the country's foreign debt has doubled to $750 million, unemployment is rising dangerously, and a wave of Castroite kidnapings has terrorized both city and countryside (TIME, March 19). Now all of these pale beside a grave new political concern. Colombia's National Front, formed in 1958 to make peace between the warring Liberal and Conservative parties, is in danger of imminent collapse...
...European theologians as Karl Rahner of Germany and France's Henri de Lubac to California's James Arenz, a promising young Ph.D. in astronautics who is a consultant at Lockheed. But the quality and character of the order varies considerably from province to province. The Jesuits of Colombia, for example, are extremely conservative, while in France the order remains radical and progressive-spirited. Man for man, the 8,600 U.S. Jesuits probably have less influence than the 261 communications-minded Paulist fathers. With few vocations to bring in new blood, the society in Italy, says one U.S. Jesuit...
...United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States however reluctantly ... to the exercise of an international police power " Teddy's was the Big Stick. In 1903 after the U.S. had kicked the Spaniards out of Cuba and supported Panama's revolt against Colombia because of Washington's interest in an isthmian canal, Roosevelt signed treaties with Cuba and Panama providing for U.S intervention to protect the fledgling republics' independence. But T.R.'s successors also invoked the corollary. In 1909 when Nicaragua erupted in chaos under the corrupt anti-American dictatorship of Jose...
...nothing to halt Castro's campaign of subversion around the hemisphere. According to U.S. intelligence, Cuban training schools turn out more than 1,500 American graduates each year as guerrilla cadres. Venezuela's army has been chasing them through the interior without notable success. Colombia's even more expert army no sooner cleaned out the country's bandits than a pair of Castro-style guerrilla bands cropped up in the same Andean hills. There have been reports of Communist guerrillas in Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, Brazil?and of course the Dominican Republic, for which Castro...
...Reds' two prime targets are oil-rich Venezuela and adjoining Colombia. Thwarted in Venezuela when they invaded the cities to try and prevent presidential elections in 1963, FALN terrorists have returned to the remote hill country, where they are engaged in Castro-style campaigns to murder local authorities and win over the peasantry. In Colombia's northeast, where they have back-to-back liaison with Venezuelan terrorists across the border, Communist bands have been shooting, looting, and haranguing the terrified populace to join in a people's revolt. In the southwest, Colombia's notorious Bandit-turned...