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...annual consumption-result in a narrow, rapidly fluctuating market. The fact is, according to coffeemen, that about 40% of all U.S. coffee is traded on the exchange. The price rise, they insist, was simply due to heavy demand coupled with the fear of a low, frost-bitten supply. Says Gustavo Lobo Jr., president of the New York exchange: "If speculation occurred, it was within permissible limits. If we are going to curb speculation entirely, we will have to do away with free markets of every kind...
President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla is more moderate, but seemingly feels that he must go right down the line with his Conservative Party on its most heartfelt plank, union of church and state. He has increasingly turned the agreement against the Protestants. Such actions inevitably get Colombia a bad press abroad; sensitive Colombians may be astonished to learn that their country is well on the way to earning a reputation for bigotry second, among Western nations, only to Spain...
After Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrew the ultra-Conservative regime of President Laureano Gomez last summer, some U.S. Protestant missionaries hopefully reported an apparent slackening in government restrictions on Protestants in Colombia. But President Rojas is a Conservative too, and state Catholicism is a prime plank of any Conservative government in Colombia. Last September the Rojas regime banned Protestant activity in 18 "mission territories" in remote parts of the country. Last week the government announced a further curb: Protestants may no longer engage in religious activities outside their churches, though within the churches they will not be molested...
Political murder, the scourge of Colombia, is on the rise again. Last week alone, there were eight killings; there have been more than 100 since last June, when Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pi-nilla seized the presidency of Colombia and promised "no more bloodshed...
...Gustavo Rojas Pi-nilla...