Word: laureano
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...Flags. To Colombia's working classes, Gaitán had been an enshrined hero. For a month, they had burned with resentment because Conservative Party Leader Laureano Gómez had kept him from being a delegate to the International Conference. As Gaitán lay on the surgeon's table, his hysterical supporters stormed the Capitolio, screaming, "Death to Laureano...
...Presidential Palace. Soon other Liberals arrived. The result was a new coalition cabinet in which Liberals held half the seats. Its strong man: Darío Echandía, vigorous middle-of-the-roader and new Liberal leader, who took the key post of Minister of the Interior. Laureano...
...soon as Colombia's ruddy-faced Foreign Minister Laureano Gómez had been elected conference president, the economic issue was opened. It was Mexico's eloquent Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet who ripped into it. "Of course [European] reconstruction is urgent," he argued, "but is development less urgent when the peoples who seek it live as misrably as most of those who clamor for reconstruction?" Latin America's Indian millions, he thundered, are "the martyrs of peace...
...field, the Conservatives stood their best chance of regaining power since they lost it in 1930 by just such a division. Their nominee: coffee-rich Mariano Ospina Pérez, whose uncle and grandfather had been Colombian Presidents. Put up at the last minute by wily old Conservative Leader Laureano Gomez, ultra-respectable Candidate Ospina Perez had shrewdly sat tight in Bogota, made a few well-bred radio speeches, and waited for the divided Liberals to knock themselves...
...newspaper, El Siglo, property of Colombia's most choleric orator, Laureano Gómez (who went into self-imposed exile following the Presidential abduction last summer), roared that "arrests of clergymen violated the Concordat with the Vatican." But the rest of the press saved its condemnation for the plotters...