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...bowing to military pressure, Rojas gave up his former position as unchallenged strongman of Colombia. He is now a kind of chairman of the board, and other military men increasingly share in the making of policy...
Letting Down. General Rojas first took power in 1953, when he ousted an unpopular Conservative President. That act put a stop to backlands guerrilla fighting by the opposition Liberals and earned Colombia's gratitude. But his soldiers were not content to be the force supporting a mainly civilian regime. Instead, generals and colonels became Cabinet ministers and governors; sergeants became village mayors. The politicos understandably balked; the rural fighting resumed (TIME, Dec. 31). Rojas cracked down, banning meetings and closing newspapers...
...drawn by Author Clément, a Frenchman who has lived in Mexico and Colombia, Juanito has animal strength and animal cunning. In a time of trouble he might have become another Pancho Villa. In a time of peace he is simply an anachronism, tolerated by the señores because he keeps his village quiet, but readily expendable when he grows too big and too troublesome. Sitting in his death cell, Juanito reflects that of all his crimes the most serious was the driving of the schoolteacher from Naolinco. Too late he recognizes that "the schoolmaster had been right...
Largely obscured by more dramatic conflicts in Europe, Africa and Asia, one of history's bloodiest struggles goes silently on in Colombia. In the eight-year-old strife between the Colombian army and anti-government guerrillas, the death toll, according to President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, tops 100,000-three times greater than battle deaths among U.S. forces in Korea-in a country with a population of only 13 million. Last week TIME correspondent Piero Saporiti toured the front lines of this almost-forgotten battleground. His report...
...typical of this strange, confused, nearly meaningless war. Its causes are rooted deep in Colombian history and temperament, a striking national indifference to death and lust for combat going back to the battles and matings of the fearless Spanish conquistadors and the warlike native Chibcha Indians. Since Colombia became independent in 1819, the bloodshed has come mainly from Liberals fighting Conservatives, often in protest against a political defeat...