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Although North Americans revere Simón Bolívar as South America's great Liberator, not many are aware how far to the right his political views veered in his last years. Last week those authoritarian views were again a hot political issue in Colombia...
...wish to commend you ... for your courage and honesty in printing the report of atrocities perpetrated upon American missionaries and evangelical believers in Colombia [TIME, Jan. 7] . . . We see so much of propaganda news to build up favorable sentiment to the Roman hierarchy, but what is going on in Italy, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico ... is carefully kept out of U.S. newspapers...
...interpretation of religion, and are doing an enormous job in delivering worthless brats. Chief offenders are the Baptists and Methodists, who insist on being "martyred" in Catholic countries while they practice anti-Catholicism daily in our "democratic" South . . . These pesty Baptists and friends will force their way to Colombia, Mexico, and even on the Pope's front lawn with the effrontery of troublemakers rather than the bearers of the Word of Peace. Is bigotry a one-way affair...
...Waynick asked and got promises of strong police protection. A police detail appeared briefly, then left when all appeared quiet. Thereupon Father Florencio Alvarez, a local priest, led his most ardent parishioners down the steep cobblestone street from a hilltop slum behind the chapel. The marchers carried banners proclaiming "Colombia is Catholic" and "We Will Not Be Robbed of Our Religion." Some of them also heaved stones. Halting directly before the church door, Father Alvarez thanked his followers for their "protestation of faith" and denounced "Protestant millionaires from the U.S. who try to sow disunity and uproot the true faith...
Slings & Arrows. Aghast at these antics, the doctors began to probe into Lanza's past. They found that during his two years as a "surgeon"' in the New World (he spent eight months in Venezuela and Colombia before going to Guatemala), he had never produced a single document to show that he had attended any medical school. Instead of the "200 successful operations" he claimed to have performed in Guatemala, he had actually done only eleven, not all successful. But he had gathered in far more than eleven fees, by collecting from prospective patients in advance...