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...three days, right-wing fanatics and cashiered army officers would rise throughout the country. In Bogota, 2,000 rebels, divided into "death brigades," would shoot up both chambers of Congress and assassinate government leaders, hoping to topple the Conservative-Liberal coalition regime and restore to power former Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who was ousted 18 months...
...Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, 46, Secretary of Government (Interior) and Chief of Cabinet. The shrewdly capable No. 3 man at Government under Ruiz Cortines, he was hoisted to the top by Lopez Mateos...
...morning last week Venezuela's Communist Party boss. Gustavo Machado, walked into the Caracas house of Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, leading presidential candidate and (until he started campaigning) head of the ruling junta. Half an hour later, smiling from ear to ear. Machado came out with a document. On it was Larrazábal's signature, officially accepting the support of the Communist Party in the Dec. 7 election...
From his exile in the Canary Islands, ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla had flown home to Bogota, gambling that the fledgling government would never dare throw a former army boss in jail. He misjudged his opponents. While Rojas held court to a handful of admirers in the town house of a friend, Colombia's Senate calmly went ahead drafting indictments for corruption. One well-documented case revolved around Rojas' intervention to clear one of his cronies who was caught smuggling cattle into the country. The others were straight from bank and government records: that Rojas and his friends...
Colombia. As in the case of Venezuela, Colombia was run heavily into debt by its own ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. By careful penny pinching, the post-revolutionary junta surely and steadily paid off much of the debt...