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...Laureano Gómez rode a wheelchair to the polls in Colombia last week-and rode away from the election a revitalized political strongman. Less than five years ago, Rightist Gómez was ousted by military coup from power as a hated dictator; only six months ago he returned from banishment in Spain. But when he put his leadership of the Conservative Party into the balance against the party's other factions in the voting, the strong-willed ex-dictator, now 69 and weakened by a series of four heart attacks, easily won. "He is," Colombians explained with...
Fifty-Fifty for Peace. Colombia's Conservatives and Liberals went to the elections to pick a Congress, the first after nine years of dictatorship and state of siege. They voted under a very special set of ground rules devised by Laureano Gómez and Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo. Because Colombian political strife runs readily to bloodshed, the parties agreed to split the seats in Congress exactly half and half...
...that party's 50% share of 80 Senate and 148 Chamber of Deputies seats. The total vote-1,800,000 for all Liberals, v. 1,400,000 for all Conservatives-clearly showed Lleras' party to be Colombia's biggest. In the intra-Conservative election, Laureano Gómez' chief opponent was moderate-minded Guillermo Len Valencia, who played a bold role last May in dethroning Military Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (the man who toppled Gómez in 1953). Of the Conservatives' 40 Senate seats, the Gómez group won (depending on the final...
...with tanks and troops (presumably for the President's protection) and argued forcefully that the prestige of all the armed forces hung on making concessions to the anti-dictatorial feelings of the rebels and their covert sympathizers. Almost from the beginning, the military men demanded the heads of Laureano Vallenilla Lanz and Pedro Estrada...
...another five years as President of Venezuela-barring, of course, assassination or a coup by his military juniors. He won the term in a plebiscite that gave voters a choice of him or nothing. So cynically rigged was the election that two hours after the polls closed, Interior Minister Laureano Vallenilla Lanz summoned foreign newsmen to hear the results. Just as a small television receiver in the corner of his office beamed the opening of the first ballot box, the minister, his .38-cal. revolver prominently displayed on his desk, said that the citizens had voted...