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Lords of Upheaval. Called Viotá and Sumapaz, the two Red enclaves of backlands Bolshevism in Colombia have been in existence for years, making trouble for democracy in Latin America long before anyone heard of Fidel Castro. The rugged, roadless terrain offers little hindrance to guerrilla movements, while effectively blunting any military reprisal or concerted government program of building and social reform that might dilute Communist influence on the peasantry...
November is a touchy month for Panama's national sensibilities, because it has three blood-stirring anniversaries: independence from Colombia on the 3rd, the Canal Zone-establishing treaty with the U.S. on the 18th, liberation from Spain on the 28th. Last November Panamanian nationalists twice made bloody attempts to invade the Canal Zone and plant the Panamanian flag there. The following month President Eisenhower agreed that the flag should indeed fly as "visual evidence that Panama does have titular sovereignty" over the U.S.-occupied Zone, but the House of Representatives voted a resolution against letting the Panamanian flag...
Seven days after the end of the Organization of American States meeting in Costa Rica, the U.S. this week goes to a hemispheric Committee of 21 development conference in Colombia. It is' a logical progression from symptom to cause. The symptom is the wide emotional response in Latin America to the nostrums proposed by Fidel Castro; the cause is the growing despair among Latin Americans over their inability to make the big breakthrough out of poverty and backwardness...
...dictator who did not claim to represent the will of the people." committees of foreign ministers filled offstage workrooms of the rococo National Theater to write the final resolution. The initial division was between two groups. One group-including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia-was willing to go along with the U.S. in a specific denunciation of Russian and Communist Chinese intervention and of Cuba for inviting it. Other foreign ministers-from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Honduras and Ecuador-were moved by their own leftism, by fear of disappointing masses back home...
...soft-line advocates were stiffened by orders from home or by becoming convinced in Costa Rica that failure to act would do irreparable damage to the inter-American system. At last only Venezuela's Arcaya was left leading the crumbling opposition to the firm resolutions submitted by Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay and Mexico. The negotiators invited Roa to consult with them, but Roa highhandedly replied that he did not work at night. In the end the strong resolution went through, and Roa picked up his papers and walked...