Word: colombia
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...called "rotten," he himself "a servile satellite of the United States." Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, said another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos was the "betrayer of the Mexican Revolution." Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo, said Mambi, plotted the recent uprising against Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt...
Among the few Latin places where the auto population has not reached mature old age are Bolivia and Colombia. In the rarefied air of La Paz, the 11,900-ft. high capital of Bolivia, even the strongest auto passes on after a mere 15 years or so. And in Colombia most cars are likewise postwar models. Very few cars were imported in the 1920s and 1930s, because in those days Colombia had scarcely any paved roads...
...virtue of a life spent in high office in Colombia and as the constructive head of the Organization of American States, Alberto Lleras Camargo ranks as Latin America's most creative democratic statesman. He is also a friend and admirer of the U.S., happy that his country is "governed by institutions that have their origin in Philadelphia." In Washington last week for a state visit, President Lleras thus won a special warmth and spoke words of special weight. His subject was the "backwardness" of Latin America-Lleras is too frank to call it "underdevelopment...
...Live by Law. Alberto Lleras more than any other man is keeping Colombia out of the dark. Lleras began his career as a hustling journalist and at 24 was running Colombia's top newspaper, El Tiempo. Jumping into Liberal politics, he held a flurry of boy wonder Cabinet posts, came to the U.S. as ambassador in 1943, became Colombia's interim President for a year at 39. In 1947, he went to Washington to play the leading role in creating the OAS, became its first secretary-general. He wrote most of the 1947 Rio mutual defense treaty that...
...even by the most generous estimates," says Maryknoll Father Albert Nevins, "only about 10% can be called practicing Catholics." Out of a total population of 191 million, Latin America has only 6,131,000 Protestants, and there has been a consistent record of active persecution of Protestants in Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia. Despite these discouragements, there are 4,825 North American Protestant missionaries in Latin America...