Word: colombianizing
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...treaty of 1903, Uncle Sam took advantage of a helpless baby republic just separated from Colombia. Secession was backed by the U.S. because the Colombian Senate had rejected American terms for a canal. The U.S. then took "in perpetuity" Panama's natural patrimony and most valuable natural resource and turned it into a state monopoly and a colony, splitting the new country...
...ranges from hopeless to revolutionary. Average per capita income is a miserable $400 a year. Since 1961, seven constitutional governments have been toppled by military coups. Nearly all of Latin America-about 8,500,000 sq. mi. and 220 million people-is teeming with unrest. The "invisible" ones, as Colombian Writer Germán Arciniegas said of the masses, may be at a point where they will make themselves heard in "a consuming fire or a flood of light." And despite jubilant receptions for President Eisenhower when he visited in 1960 and for President Kennedy in 1962, Latin America...
...Colombia was not required to surrender Peru's leftish leader, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, who had taken asylum in the Colombian embassy in Lima...
...days, the cellar has been home to Brothers Juan Carlos Cardoso, 46, and Luis Amadeo Cardoso, 41, making them easily the current champions in that treasured Latin American institution known as political asylum. Only Peru's Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, who fled to the Colombian embassy in Lima in 1949 - holed up for five years, three months, four days - ever approached their record...
...Creole; the OAS team scarcely understood his words. Only under pressure did he agree to remove his guards from the Dominican embassy and grant safe-conduct out of the country for 15 of the Haitian asylees. Nothing would budge him on the other seven, who were moved to the Colombian embassy, and there were no promises about what would happen when the OAS team departed...