Word: espectadores
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...Strongman-President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla has been carrying on a clumsy feud with the country's traditionally free-swinging press. Last week Rojas discovered that he had stumbled again. His latest press-muzzling maneuver, an attempt to fine two of the country's largest Liberal dailies (El Espectador and El Correo) into oppositionless silence, had backfired. Rojas found himself faced by a "Freedom of the Press Fund," supported by public subscription, to pay the penalties, should he decide to levy similar fines in the future...
...people danced to the mountain music. Staid Nacional Radio slipped a few bambucos in among its classics; smaller stations broadcast them at all hours. White-tied guitarists strummed the beat at the upper-class Embajador restaurant. Street minstrels twanged the bambuco on their four-stringed tiples (Indian guitars). El Espectador, surveying the popular tunes of 1949, noted that three bambucos topped the list. "Why not?" asked a bogotano. ''After all, it's our own music, and it's good...
...excitable Colombian press had an anti-U.S. field day. El Tiempo talked of a "bad neighbor" policy, dredged up such old standbys as "dollar diplomacy," "manifest destiny," the "big stick." El Espectador accused the U.S. of "economic aggression." The reason for the uproar was that the U.S. and Colombia had got themselves tangled in an unseemly row over shipping coffee...