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...months ago, after squandering the treasury's pesetas all the way from Madrid to Bogota, Colombia, Riberaygua finally slipped back to Andorra, shamefaced and dead broke, to face the music. Last week, as he lounged around home at provisional liberty, Andorra's elders informally let drop their intentions: Riberaygua will probably go scot-free. After all. the Riberaygua family had almost gone bankrupt paying back what Ramon had stolen. Anyway, the four-cell jail in the Casa de la Vail might lose its appeal for tourists if it were cluttered up with a prisoner...
...even Maximum Leader Castro cannot afford to ignore the church. In the past five years, it has been a rallying point for enemies of dictators who fell in Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia. Last week, after pro-Communist gangs attacked crowds leaving Havana Cathedral, Archbishop Diaz threatened that the Cuban Catholic Church might declare itself officially "in silence"-as it is behind the Iron Curtain. As the Castro-Catholic battle got hotter, church attendance showed a sharp and significant upturn...
...founding of the United Nations approached in 1945, the old organization suddenly woke up, thanks to a capable Colombian named Alberto Lleras Camargo (now the President of Colombia). In Mexico City, delegates agreed with Lleras that they should not turn over their powers of collective action to the U.N. At San Francisco the Latin Americans delayed two weeks until the right of regional self-defense was written into Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which subsequently became the basis of NATO...
...Alarmed Reaction. Castro's very success at exporting revolution is breeding a reaction. After an initial flirtation with the Cubans, liberal and leftist parties in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Honduras have begun to rid themselves of radical Castro supporters. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin, a stubborn early friend of the Cuban revolution, last week got fed up and demanded recall of the acting Cuban consul, charging that she was encouraging Puerto Rican separatist plotters to visit Havana. Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose Figueres, both left...
...Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Guatemala have forced out Cuban envoys or broken off diplomatic relations. Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo warned that he would break relations "with any state which tries to utilize diplomatic privileges to inflict damages on us." Peru summoned the OAS to consider Red infiltration into the Hemisphere (see The Americas...