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...thunderclap of ecclesiastical anger cracked last week around the ears of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia's Roman Catholic President. It was set off by the Lenten pastoral letter of Crisanto Cardinal Luque, couched in the measured terms of churchly tradition, yet unmistakably a cry of cold indignation against the recent bull ring massacre (TIME, Feb. 20) in which Rojas' political opponents were maimed and killed by government thugs for having booed his daughter at the bullfights the week before...
Colombia (pop. 12,650,000). President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla presides over a country that is politically in a state of siege and emotionally in a state of shock. Although he has built up the country (see below), he has let a quick temper lead him into harsh police-state methods (TIME, Feb. 20) and an unmatched record as a newspaper-killer. The betting is that, one way or another...
Last month, with planning far enough along for construction to begin, C.V.C. asked President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, chips down, whether it could have the heavy grants needed to get going. The President unhesitatingly pledged the government to spend $64 million...
Inside, the government boys took up their positions and sent up lusty vivas for President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Soon anti-Rojas spectators began to give themselves away by their glowering silences or muttered retorts. When the oppositionists were fully identified, the bullyboys opened up. Whipping out blackjacks, knives and guns, they attacked in milling fury. Victims were tossed screaming over the guardrails high above exit passageways; hundreds of others were toppled into the arena. Pistols banged away. The toll: at least eight dead, 50 hurt...
Since last August, when he shut down Colombia's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, 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...