Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...navy and air force men in Bogotá's broad Plaza Bolivar on the third anniversary of his seizure of power. Ranged on a platform at the foot of the statue of Liberator Simón Bolivar were a tall crucifix and eight urns containing the ashes of Colombian soldiers who fought in the Korean war and in the country's own backlands guerrilla war. Rojas then read off a solemn oath, swearing the servicemen, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the memory of Simon Bolivar, to "fight for the domination of the Third Force until...
...Currie left the U.S., became an economic adviser to the Colombian government, later resigned to buy a 500-acre ranch, where he raises cattle and supplies milk to Bogota. He avoids the U.S. colony in the capital, has announced that he considers Colombia his "real home," and is seeking citizenship there. Last week the State Department said that Lauchlin Currie, by staying abroad five years, had automatically forfeited U.S. citizenship...
...before last week's bullfights in Bogotá, the Colombian government announced cryptically that it was taking "fitting measures" to head off opposition "political manifestations'' in the huge Santamaria bull ring. The measures turned out to be novel as well as fitting: the regime bought $15,000 worth of tickets and distributed them to thousands of policemen, plainclothesmen and government employees. On bullfight day the official ticketholders were waved through the gates; other fans were carefully frisked for weapons...
...President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who symbolizes opposition to Strongman Rojas Pinilla, arrived and took a seat. No sooner had the cheering died down than the President's 22-year-old daughter Maria Eugenia and her husband, pro-government Publisher Samuel Moreno, stepped into the presidential box. In the Colombian equivalent for booing, the throng angrily whistled them out of the stadium-an insult that doubtless threw hot-tempered General Rojas Pinilla into a boiling rage...
Unsavory Distinction. The one Colombian paper that got the story into print, Medellin's responsible El Colombiano, was closed down by the device of moving the government's censorship office to an out-of-town military post, where editors were ordered to bring all copy. Since the same move shut two other Medellin papers, Rojas Pinilla, who has blotted out all of Bogotá's oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship...