Word: colombianizing
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Gabriel Garcia Márquez spent the first eight years of his life in Aracataca, a steamy banana town not far from the Colombian coast. "Nothing interesting has happened to me since," he has said. His experiences there were eventually transformed into a tenderly comic novel, just published in the U.S. after three years of enormous success in Latin America. It has survived export triumphantly. In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum calentano, the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind...
...Colombian urban terrorists affiliated with the Army of National Liberation pocketed at least $600,000 in ransom money from kidnapings in August alone. In Bolivia, where 22 dynamite explosions have rocked La Paz and other cities since May, the government last week scored a rare triumph over the guerrillas. Police surprised Guido "Inti" Peredo, the only one of Guevara's lieutenants to survive Che's doomed campaign, in a house in La Paz. Inti died in the clash. In Guatemala City, where terrorists last year assassinated U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein and two U.S. military attach...
...export total from 70% to less than 50%. Still, Rocky's hosts complained that quotas and other restrictions have kept some of their new exports out of U.S. markets. One proposal made in Colombia was that foreign investors should gradually transform local enterprises into joint ventures, taking in Colombian partners...
...best of my memory. Dean Price is well suited to his role in the purge. His practiced eye sees through the facade of a fight against ROTC and Harvard expansion and gets to the real core of the difficulty-misconduct, just like that of the Vietnamese and the Colombian students attacking Rockefeller, envious as they are of American riches. Norman Daniels...
...year; on the same day another attempt was aborted when two youths were fooled into capture. They were convinced by the pilot that the plane did not have enough fuel to reach Cuba, and when the jet landed at Miami, FBI agents arrested the pair. Two days later, a Colombian airliner en route to Medellín, Colombia, was taken over and forced to fly to Santiago de Cuba by a Colombian airport guard who idolized the late Che Guevara...