Word: colombianizing
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...leadership of the outlawed Aprista party. The non-Stalinist group, once the most powerful in the country, draws its doctrine from Marx and its support from Peru's impoverished Indian agrarians. When APRA's founder Victor Raul Haya de la Torre sought refuge in the Colombian embassy a year ago last January, he left a triumvirate to direct the party. Last fortnight two of the three, Senator Cirilo Cornejo and Deputy Luis Felipe de las Casas, were condemned to prison terms by a military court. Next night, the third, scrappy, square-faced Luis Negreiros, who had managed...
...test a machete, a Colombian campesino sticks the point into a wooden floor and bends the bladedouble. If the heavy knife springs back upright, the countryman is satisfied that it is good. If it has a bone handle and nickel-plate finish besides, the customer cannot get his money out fast enough...
Last week busy salesmen, speaking a guttural Spanish, were showing just such a machete to Colombian hardware dealers. It was the German Mosquito-brand machete, and its agents said that they could deliver it for $2 a dozen less than any U.S. knife. A standard Collins machete, made in Collinsville, Conn., costs $14 a dozen, and does not always offer the prized (though nonessential) nickel finish...
...prewar size and a valuable prize indeed. "Our European competitors," griped a U.S. businessman in Mexico City last week, "are simply using U.S. taxpayers' money to compete in U.S. markets." Like it or not, U.S. citizens would have to accept competitive individual defeats in Rio or the Colombian canebrakes as victories in fact for the U.S. program of rebuilding democracy's.ramparts in Western Europe...
...bambuco has a long history in the Colombian countryside. For 100 years, the backlanders of Boyaca and Tolima have danced and sung it with little heed from bogotanos or anybody else. The boyaquenses, a mournful sort, usually sing of the cruel landlord, the icy mountains, the deceived husband. The tolimenses more often compose their songs about their burros, canoes, crops, or sweethearts. Straw-hatted, sandal-shod, machete-lugging mountaineers flirt as they dance to the music. Their girls, swaying and whirling with lifted skirt, respond coquettishly to each advance...