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Murderous banditry bloodied Colombia's countryside for two decades until an all-out effort by the Colombian army last year finally brought a semblance of order to the backlands. Now la violencia has broken out in a more subtle form in Colombia's cities. Last week in Medellin, a city of 700,000 northwest of Bogotá, Carlos Mejia, 9, son of one of the country's richest industrialists, was kidnaped as he walked to school; the kidnapers demanded $180,000 for his safe return. That same day in Bogotá, the wife of a prominent doctor...
...horrors, la violencia was sporadic and disorganized. Colombian intelligence experts believe that most of the kidnaping is the work of Castro-Communist terrorists, who see it as a way to spread chaos and buy arms for their Army of Liberation, the guerrilla outfit that invaded the village of Simacota last January. There is certainly money in the racket. In the past year, more than $1,000,000 in ransom was collected in the 130 kidnaping cases reported to police. Much more was probably squeezed from victims too terrified to tell...
Latin America's women have some distance yet to go to emancipation. Ecuadorian and Colombian law still prevent a married woman-separated or not-from leaving the country without her husband's written permission. But such old-fashioned notions are dying fast, and Latin American women are determined to lay down a few rules of their own. "We know," says Colombia's Señora de Uribe, "that we have something else to offer than men-namely, the human element, more compassion. And with this, we will conquer society which for years has kept us submissive...
...Watchful Military. The only real power base in Colombia today is the military, and it still seems solidly behind the President. Valencia's war minister, able, astute Major General Alberto Ruiz Novoa, 47, who commanded the Colombian contingent during the Korean War, insists that the armed forces will adhere to their traditional role as "defenders of civilian rule...
Harvard has joined 35 other universities in a program to bring Colombian students to study in the United States, William F. Barnes, director of the office of Inter-American studies said last night...