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...Bogotá, Eisenhower brought White House greetings to Colombia's popular President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, newly installed in office after last month's army coup. "I want my first words in Colombia," said Eisenhower, "to be a tribute to the courage displayed in action by the heroic Colombian soldiers in Korea." Proud that his countrymen are the only Latin Americans fighting for the U.N., General Rojas said that they would stay as long as needed...
President Laureano Gómez, a harsh, angry, forbidding man, ruled.Colombia (pop.: 12,000,000) with a will so stern that other men instinctively cringed and obeyed him. More than any other Colombian of this century, he dominated his country's life. But one afternoon last week, ten of the Colombian army's tanks clanked up and took positions around his modest suburban house, and then-simply, surprisingly-Laureano Gómez, 64, slid like a wilted leaf down history's drainpipe...
That night Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 53, the chief of the armed forces who had sent the tanks, named himself Acting President. The Colombian army, almost unique in Latin America for its 87-year record of staying out of politics, had lost patience and taken over...
...elections, and set up an all-Conservative cabinet including three brother officers. Over the radio from the palace, he promised "clean elections" and "no more bloodshed, no more quarrels among the sons of Colombia." He also pledged scrupulous observance of all international obligations and sent personal greetings to the Colombian battalion in Korea, the only Latin American contingent fighting with the United Nations forces...
...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...