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...history of the last ten years in Colombia is full of Luis Ignacio Andrade," said the magazine Semana last week. And for all those years, Andrade was a name that sent chills up thousands of Colombian spines. In 1949, the police under his Ministry of Government slaughtered Liberals by the hundreds, scared the rest from the polls, and imposed a Conservative President in a one-party election. When many backlands Liberals turned into guerrillas and vengefully killed his cops, Andrade publicly proposed to "shoot ten prominent Liberal politicians for every dead policeman...
With rigorous attention to protocol, the strongman Presidents of Venezuela and Colombia met one afternoon last week on the long, narrow steel bridge over the borderline Taáchira River. Venezuela's General Marcos Peérez Jimeénez brought along his wife, his top ministers and a band of military chiefs; Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was backed up by his wife and a similar party...
...Colombia's Foreign Minister had earlier announced that the talks would "go a little beyond mere protocol," but if the strongmen made any agreement, they did not announce it. There is no political tension between the countries. Regardless of what they said, by merely meeting, the Presidents affirmed what every dictator who is trying to keep the lid on likes to know: the flanking nation is in understanding hands. "We are both military men," said Rojas Pinilla later. "We have the same problems and the same "enemies...
...South American by birth. Sert came to the United States in 1939. He has had extensive experience in long-range planning, having designed the master plans for the cities of Lima, Peru; Medellin, Cali, and Bogota, Colombia...
With that tasteless accusation as a spur to discontent, all the economic and political bills against the regime suddenly began to fall due. Most alarming, in 98% Roman Catholic Colombia, was the displeasure of the church. Crisanto Cardinal Luque. the saintly and unbending primate, considered the Third Force dangerous and its oath blasphemous, and said so in a pastoral letter. The cost of military extravagance-$250 million in one year alone -was revealed as part of a huge foreign debt (TIME, Oct. 22). Citizens grumblingly yearned for the basic freedom that by and large prevailed under Liberal and Conservative politicians...