Word: colombianizing
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...week's end the chapel was boarded up for repairs. For the U.S., Ambassador Waynick lodged a strong protest with the Colombian government...
Mermaids & Indians. Early this year, Colombian-born Hector Robert Acebes Medina organized a small expedition to find the source of the Orinoco all over again and study Indian tribes along the way. According to Acebes, he was within 100 miles of his goal when Venezuelan authorities chased him back to San Felipe in Colombia. He had studied the Indians, and had seen, so he said, some toninas -strange mermaidlike mammals with breasts like a woman's and the strength to defeat alligators in aquatic battle. But he was not permitted to re-enter Venezuela and continue his travels...
...beginning to take notice." What the bashful artist didn't realize when he went quietly back to his painting was that the loss of a local audience became the occasion for winning a new, international audience through the story in TIME'S Art Section. Henry Bosemberg, our Colombian string correspondent, reported that the story first made Rodriguez the talk of Bogota, then attracted six prospective buyers into his studio and brought him commissions to paint two portraits for 2,000 pesos ($800) apiece. By last week he had received mail from readers in Louisville, Detroit, Montreal, Manitowoc...
...good deal for both the country and the company. International keeps a slice of the profits for at least ten years more. Colombia got De Mares, together with its 1,030 wells and its other installations (including the refinery at Barranca Bermeja), without paying a centavo. Also, the Colombian government showed the world's oilmen that it is willing to do business fair & square-a good thing for Colombia, which needs foreign capital and know-how to help get its oil out of the ground...
...Guajira Peninsula, at the northernmost tip of South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...