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...French, and Dutch naval blockades of the Venezuelan coast, or parts of it, did not bring Dictator-President Cipriano Castro perceptibly to reason. He started out in 1900 by springing a successful coup d'etat, and grandiloquently announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors; 2) seizing British and Dutch ships on the ground that "personal enemies of myself are being nurtured in British and French...
...Colombia's Lt. Benny. Lieutenant Benjamin Mendez, young Colombian flyer, affectionately called "Benny" at the Curtiss Flying Field where he trained, was still at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, last week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired...
...used is Colombia to labor agitation, that recently President Miguel Abadia Mendez was given the right to declare martial law at a moment's notice when labor troubles threatened. This...
...Colombia is prospering vastly, not only on account of major U. S. oil and fruit developments (see Map), but because the taste of Americans is rapidly turning from strong coffee to mild-the kind grown in Colombia, whereas stronger brands come from Brazil. The popularity of platinum and the present Parisian rage for emeralds are also potent prosperity factors, for Colombia is the largest producer of the white metal and the green stone. France is less than half as great as Colombia, in area; New York City is only slightly less in population...
...equal length in Ecuador, for it lies astride the equator. The ruling class is of pure Spanish blood, proud and enervated. In consequence almost half the territory which is legally Ecuadorian is actually within a "sphere of influence" impudently maintained by adjoining and militant Peru. Here again, as in Colombia, the factor of altitudes is vital and decisive. Gigantic parallel ranges of mountains, many over four miles high, cut off the nominally sovereign scions of Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly and simply taken. Quito perches at an altitude...