Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excitable Colombian press had an anti-U.S. field day. El Tiempo talked of a "bad neighbor" policy, dredged up such old standbys as "dollar diplomacy," "manifest destiny," the "big stick." El Espectador accused the U.S. of "economic aggression." The reason for the uproar was that the U.S. and Colombia had got themselves tangled in an unseemly row over shipping coffee...
...Colonel Mancheno and flew off in an army trimotored Junkers to Colombia and exile. It was a time for Velasco to say: "This is where I came in;" an army coup had chucked him out of the Ecuadorian presidency in 1935, a revolution had brought him back from Colombian exile nine years later to make him President again...
Back in Lima last month after a Colombian tour, 24-year-old Conchita, a slim, trim blonde with unforgettably cold blue eyes, was the talk and toast of the Peruvian capital. U.S. Ambassador Prentice Cooper stopped her on the street, introduced himself, gladly shook her tiny, calloused hand. Twice she fought in the ring-and brilliantly. She might have appeared oftener (at her usual $12,000 fee), but she was annoyed that Lima's new 30,000-seat bull ring, for which she laid the first stone three years ago, was still unfinished...
When a U.S. news scout searched Bogota for a Colombian representative last year, he was told that there was only one man in the country who knew how to write the terse, factual stories that North Americans like. "Unfortunately for you," a Colombian explained, "he is our President." He spoke of keen, wiry Alberto Lleras Camargo, the "boy wonder" editor who became Minister of Interior (Premier) at 29, and stepped into the presidency ten years later. Last week, Lleras, now 41, got a job with even more scope; he was elected director general of the venerable Pan American Union...
...Lleras invited conservatives into his National Unity Government. He also, complained fellow party members, failed utterly to heal a split in his own Liberal Party. The result was that in last year's elections the Liberals (whose two candidates polled a majority) were soundly defeated. But not even Colombian Liberals set up an opposition cry when their leader was presented for the $18,000-a-year job (tax free) as head of the Pan American Union. Lleras' election was unanimous...