Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colombia's major parties are Conservatives and Liberals. For 16 years, the Liberals had elected a President. But last year, Gaitan, running as a breakaway Liberal candidate, split his own party by attacking Gabriel Turbay, the official Liberal candidate. Colombia, cried Gaitan, needed a candidate issued from a "Colombian belly." Turbay's parents were Syrian...
...Colombians are ravished by Gaitan's rhetoric. The press often gleefully reproduces his choicer metaphors. Sample: "I am the dynamo, but the people is the electric charge, and together we make an automobile." The contempt of El Tiempo, spokesman for the old-line Liberal Party, only convinced Gaitan that he needed his own mouthpiece. Last week he had it: La Jornada (The Working Day). As prose, La Jornada's fiery editorials did not compare with El Tiempo's. But they spoke the language of the restless masses who threaten to upset Colombia's old order...
Medellin (pronounced Medday-heen) and its tributary towns of the Aburra Valley are the seat of the three major Colombian textile concerns-Coltejer, Fabricate, and Tejicondor. The Medellin tobacco industry is a monopoly. In Medellin, far from the Magdalena, a new skyscraper is going up to house the Antioquian company that dominates Magdalena River shipping. Most of Colombia's investments in gold, all in oil and steel, the bulk of the coffee trade have their homes in Medellin...
...Colombian Chicago. Even today, Antioquia and Caldas send several thousand emigrants a year into the Valle del Cauca. The Vallenses themselves prefer the valleys and leave the slopes to the immigrants from the north. To the southeast, Antioquian peasants are settling the virgin mountainsides of Tolima. In the north, they have overflowed into Choco and Bolivar, and control much of Bolivar's cattle industry. Of the 3,000,000 Colombians of Antioquian descent, only 1,300,000 live in Antioquia...
Medellin is the Chicago of this Colombian frontier. Like last-century Chicago, it is all vulgarity and bustle. In violent juxtaposition, there is every conceivable type of architecture, from a smattering of colonial through 19th Century brick churches to curvaceous, glass-walled, ten-story skyscrapers-most of it in muscular bad taste. But the most characteristic structure in Medellin is a half-finished factory. Some 250 large factories already function in Medellin and the adjacent towns of Itagui, Bello, Envigado and Copacabana, but industrialization goes on. The municipal power system provides the cheapest electricity in South America, and is stepping...