Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colombia is already a sizable oil producer, getting some 12% of its export earnings from sales of 32 million bbls. of crude a year. But over the years the risky Colombian oilfields have been good places to lose money as well as to make it, and hopeful 1950 oil decrees have attracted little new interest. Ecopetrol itself was created not as a nationalistic gesture but because a U.S. company handed back a concession that had expired, and no other foreign firm wanted to take over...
...dictatorship, and costing the government heavily in prestige. Rojas' answer, made in an impromptu speech at the opening of an exhibit of public works: "I ask myself how the government can be losing prestige? Formerly Liberal governments persecuted Conservatives and many Conservative authorities persecuted Liberals, while today every Colombian knows-morning, noon and night-that the armed forces vigilantly guard his life, his honor and his property." Critics of this state of affairs, he said, were "intellectual guerrillas...
...American high schools in the Colombian cities of Bogotá, Barranquilla and Cali, run by U.S. and Colombian Protestants, are among the country's best. But henceforth, Roman Catholic parents who send children to the American schools will be liable to excommunication. Crisanto Cardinal Luque warned them of the church's extreme penalty in a pastoral letter read last week to Colombia's 11 million Catholics...
...enrollment of the four schools was about half Catholic a year ago. Then the Ministry of Education, which is out-rightly sympathetic to the religion of the Colombian majority, ordered all non-Catholic schools to provide their Catholic students with religious instructors jointly chosen by the government and the church. The instructors would have the right to scrutinize textbooks and teaching methods. Rather than comply, the American schools decided to accept only non-Catholic applicants, and sadly braced themselves for a big sag in registrations. Instead, more students than ever applied, some whimsically describing themselves as "Independents" or "Buddhists...
Everyone knows that Christopher Columbus discovered America, but did he really? A Colombian diplomat and historian, Germán Arciniegas does not ask the question in his Amerigo and the New World, but the reader is bound to. Columbus boldly sailed through the curtain of fear and superstition that had kept men from trying the dread Atlantic crossing. But he died believing that he had reached Asia, never accepted the fact that the New World was really another continental land mass. The first man to name it the New World was the Florentine navigator and businessman Amerigo Vespucci; at least...