Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founding of the United Nations approached in 1945, the old organization suddenly woke up, thanks to a capable Colombian named Alberto Lleras Camargo (now the President of Colombia). In Mexico City, delegates agreed with Lleras that they should not turn over their powers of collective action to the U.N. At San Francisco the Latin Americans delayed two weeks until the right of regional self-defense was written into Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which subsequently became the basis of NATO...
...Caracas' Miraflores Palace one day last week, the classic challenge of a military usurper faced the moderately leftist government of President Romulo Betancourt. An hour earlier General Jesus Maria Castro Leon, 51, former Defense Minister and a tinkling symbol of Venezuela's top brass, had crossed the Colombian frontier. Proceeding to San Cristobal (pop. 90,000), 385 miles southwest of Caracas, he took over its 500-man garrison from a disloyal colonel and by radio urged other generals to help him "restore the prestige of the armed forces...
...leaving the radio to chatter his taped call to greatness. Air Force planes flying overhead to attack were called off moments before they could fire a shot. Eleven hours later, eight armed peasants captured Castro León and five companions, just 20 minutes away from the Colombian border...
...backward nation, the Colombian President told a joint session of Congress, "can follow the Communist pattern in the hope that, after three or four generations of privation and bloodshed, the survivors may at last know and acquire some of the goods, services and facilities of a higher civilization. Or it can be guided by those principles and procedures through which you yourselves have come to be one of the richest, most fair-minded and happiest of nations...
...blight of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in 1955 sent Lleras back into Colombian politics. He plotted his revolution in Bogota's somber Jockey Club, where he brought the warring Liberals and Conservatives into a united front that eased Rojas out of office without a fight. Now midway through his four-year term, he has put across a belt-tightening stability program, cutting the foreign debt from $400 million to $170 million, holding the peso steady...