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EDUARDŌ RAMIREZ and EDGAR NEGRET-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th (third floor). Two modern classicists from Colombia. In Ramirez' wood reliefs, white shade echoes white light, in which an occasional note of intense blue or black resounds. Negret makes bright, painted aluminum sculptures. A decorative show. Through...
...against the U.S. are not the usual run of Latin American leftists and rabid ultranationalists. President Roberto F. Chiari, his most influential ministers and all major candidates in the May 10 presidential elections are members of a deeply entrenched elite that has ruled Panama since it proclaimed independence from Colombia in 1903. They are wealthy, well educated, antiCommunist, vigorously competing among themselves for power-and finding the widely resented canal treaty an ideal target to call attention away from their own position...
Taking over the Finance Ministry in 1962, Sanz proposed the toughest austerity program in Colombia's history. He slapped an export tax on coffee, a 20% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes, even pushed through higher taxes on beer, races, lotteries and gasoline. Rich and poor alike bellowed with pain. But Colombia expects to balance its budget by next year, and international bankers back what one of them called "the greatest tax reform in Latin America." Sanz will now have an important if slim chance to work some reforms on a broader scale...
...Cart & by Truck. Colombia's five largest metropolitan areas average 6% annual growth, while the country's population as a whole gains only 3% annually. Sao Paulo accepts 5,000 newcomers each day. They arrive in donkey carts, on buses and flatbed trucks, hungry, weary and expressionless. Some cannot write their own names; in the Andean countries many of the migrants speak only an Indian dialect. But they hope for food and jobs, have heard of new factories, schools and hospitals in the big cities. Above all, there is the knowledge that things cannot get worse...
...just as much as they are in the boondocks. Unskilled and unschooled, the migrants simply disappear into Rio's hillside favelas, Caracas' ranchos, Santiago's callampas, the slums that choke every large Latin American city. In a year's time, squatters at the edge of Colombia's port city of Barranquilla turned a bean field into a shantytown of crude huts housing 2,500 people. Lima's slums are growing ten times faster than the city itself; 450,000 live in slums today, compared with 120,000 in 1957. For nearly all, the chances...