Word: colombia
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...Alianza meeting in Sao Paulo last November, an eight-man inter-American executive committee was set up to act as a clearinghouse between the U.S. and its Alianza partners. Last week in Washington, the Inter-American Economic and Social Council of the OAS chose Carlos Sanz de Santamaria, 58, Colombia's Finance Minister, to boss the committee...
...commitment to re-negotiate the resented treaty. School children scuffling scuffling a flagpole do not cause violent riots, suspension of diplomatic relations, and risks of political suicide. The current dispute has been festering almost from the time that this country prodded inhabitants of the Isthmus into breaking away from Colombia and then presented the weak, young government with a treaty exchanging American protection and money for a canal zone in which America could act as if sovereign...
...treaty of 1903, Uncle Sam took advantage of a helpless baby republic just separated from Colombia. Secession was backed by the U.S. because the Colombian Senate had rejected American terms for a canal. The U.S. then took "in perpetuity" Panama's natural patrimony and most valuable natural resource and turned it into a state monopoly and a colony, splitting the new country...
...Colombia has been cursed by a senseless spree of murder and looting that began with a political assassination in 1948, has since claimed more than 200,000 lives. U.S. Army Special Forces are in Colombia to give advice. Colombia's democratic government is relatively progressive but is less impressive than was the regime of brilliant ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who left office...
...willing to negotiate, but how far it would go on the treaties was open to question. Panama owes its existence as a nation (before 1903 it was a part of Colombia) to Teddy Roosevelt's diplomacy and determination to build the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific. But the present canal is rapidly growing obsolete. The U.S. no longer considers it vital to defense in these days of missiles and two-ocean navies, is seriously considering a second canal to handle growing commercial traffic. Yet 5,600,000 tons of shipping still pass through the old locks each month...