Word: liberatore
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Italian-born Alba de Cespedes, whose Cuban grandfather was the first President and liberator of Cuba, has a sharp eye for the kind of gritty marital incidents that set a man & wife's teeth on edge. In piling most of the evidence and all of the sympathv on her...
Last week, in the midst of a campaign to scrap the existing constitution, Colombia's ruling Conservatives proclaimed that the father of the country was on their side. "We Conservatives," said the Bogota newspaper Eco National, "take pride in the illustrious ascendancy of the Liberator, with whose authoritarian ideas...
The newspaper El Siglo, mouthpiece of ailing President Laureano Gómez, praised Bolivar's idea of rule by an elite. In editorials supposedly written by Gómez himself, El Siglo echoed Bolívar's dictum that "elections are the scourge of all republics," and upheld...
Bogotá's Liberals were incensed; in their partisan zeal, they jumped on the Liberator himself. Wrote German Arciniegas, historian and essayist, in El Tiempo: "Bolívar never believed in democracy, and . . . his contempt for the law and confidence in dictatorship overflowed . . . His formula was dictatorship backed by...
At week's end the debate crackled on as far as Colombia's two-year-old state-of-siege conditions permitted. Though the President had lined up the Liberator for his favorite constitutional ideas, many of his own Conservatives seemed loth to turn the clock back. Even in...