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...coercion by Chile of Peruvian voters. . . . "Lassiter has no right to accuse us of such an offense, the U. S. robbed and took by force the territories that she now owns and which before belonged to Mexico and other nations. Nor should we forget that she usurped territory from Colombia. It is not, then, a General of that nation who has the right to accuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Tacna-Arica | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...Mexico City) who last week vanquished representatives of five other districts of Mexico in an oratorical contest with a ten-minute oration on "Bolivar and Latin-American heroes." Other things that José must have referred to about Bolivar-things that made him not merely Bolivia's but Colombia's and Peru's and indeed all Latin-America's George Washington-Napoleon-Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hero | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...Colombia. While Ecuadorians were being drowned, numerous inhabitants of adjacent Colombia clutched their parched throats and prayed fervently for rain. By last week the drought conditions had become so severe as to cause the Magdalena River to fall until navigation was no longer possible for boats of commercial tonnage. The problem of getting necessary supplies to the parched interior was acute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Disasters | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Argentina Haiti Bolivia Honduras *Brazil Mexico Chile Nicaragua Colombia Panama Costa Rica Paraguay Cuba Peru Dominican Rep. Salvador Ecuador Uruguay Guatemala **Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Three Times Larger | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...California is a complete cycle in the oil industry. It is the largest individual producer of crude oil in the U. S. and dominates the marketing of petroleum products along the west coast of both Americas. It is carrying on oil exploration work in Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina. It was originally incorporated in 1879 under the name of the Pacific Coast Oil Co.; changed its name to that of the Standard Oil Co. in 1906. All its stock the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey owned until 1911, when the Government forced the disintegration of that corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: California Oil | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

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