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...holed up at the various embassies in Havana. Since Castro refused to honor the Latin American tradition of safe-conduct out of the country, many have been in asylum for five months or more. The Venezuelan embassy holds 205 people; Brazil has 195. Costa Rica 95, Argentina 70. Colombia 50. Though European embassies do not officially grant asylum, several have taken in fleeing Cubans as "guests." The political "asylees" have escaped Castro's police, but many of them are little better off than those in his dungeons...
...Farthest along are 78 Colombia-bound volunteers (all men) at New Jersey's Rutgers University. Sponsored by CARE, they have spent six 60-hour weeks studying Spanish, U.S. and Latin American culture, how to play soccer and how to ride a horse. Next month they shove off for two years of digging wells, building roads and schools in remote mountain villages...
With the legislative situation well in hand, plans for more actual Peace Corps projects are in the works. Six have already been announced--to Tanganyika, Colombia, the Philippines, St. Lucia, Chile, and Ghana. The Ghana and Philippine projects call mainly for teachers; St. Lucia, Chile, and Colombia for agricultural experts and community developers; and Tanganyika for highly-skilled surveyors and geologists. Three of the projects--St. Lucia with Heifer, Inc., Chile with the Indiana Conference for higher education, and Colombia with CARE--will be run jointly by private organizations and the government. The Corpsmen bound for Colombia, Tanganyika, and Ghama...
Watching the disturbing show, the governments of Venezuela and Colombia spoke out in alarm against the advance of Communism, and Guatemala urged the OAS to take action. Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos quietly ordered left-wing ex-President Lazaro Cardenas to refuse an invitation to the celebrations in Havana, and approved a speech by right-wing ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez, who said: "We must never permit ourselves to be dominated by outside powers or seduced by Utopian doctrines. Unfortunately, this has already occurred in the hemisphere of liberty...
...land reform the No. 1 issue. Panama wisely began an integrated plan of land development in 1956; Venezuela, starting in 1959. has already moved 30,000 new farm families onto 2,500,000 acres under President Romulo Betancourt's crash program. Brazil's Janio Quadros and Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo are pushing comprehensive reform and agrarian-development laws through their Congress...