Word: colombia
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...other cordage, the Hemisphere has a wealth of fibers. Chief commercial ones are sisal and henequen, which grow more or less prolifically in Yucatan, Cuba, Haiti, other parts of Latin America. Exotic fibers-caroa, guaxima, papoula de Sao Francisco from Brazil, cabuya from Ecuador, pita and fique from Colombia-might replace jute and hemp if they could be produced and processed in sufficient quantity (which would involve new machinery, labor, transportation...
...long afterwards he was banished from Venezuela, for the first of four times. From his exile in New Granada (now Colombia) he determined to reliberate his native land. Around Christmas of 1812 he led some 200 "half-caste Negroes and Indios" down the Magdalena River. Their first success gave them guns and made them a legend. Soon there were 500 of them, with 1,400 rifles and four guns. As they approached, 3,000 Spaniards fled. By August Bolivar was in Caracas...
...Prophecy." Bolivar was ahead of his time. His Pan-American Congress was not a success. The personal attacks on him increased. As dictator of Colombia, he was charged with planning to make himself king. The politicians and the rebellious generals began to undermine him. In 1830, the year he died, Bolivar appeared before the Congress at Bogotá and renounced his power as president and generalissimo...
Neutral but pro-U.S.: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay...
...Canal. The Caribbean countries were one war front. Eight declared war against Japan, openly denounced Germany and Italy. Costa Rica and Haiti offered air fields. Colombia promised action "to prevent by all means any menace to the security of the Panama Canal directly or indirectly from Colombia territory." Venezuela strengthened guards at petroleum fields, airports, industrial and military establishments. As Ecuador drafted a pledge of solidarity with the U.S., Guayaquil's El Telégrajo urged that "islands,* ports, coast line, aviation fields and other defense facilities be placed at the disposition of [U.S.] military forces." Panama Canal defenses...