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...less apparent but no less potent price-boosting force, especially on imported goods, was the new foreign-exchange schedule of the peso announced by Finance Minister Alfredo Gómez Morales. The most spectacular jump was in the free market rate, which went from 9 to 14.25 to the dollar. At the same time, many import restrictions were taken...
Whisky & Calm. Colombia's Liberals, still claiming that Gómez' election was illegal, talked and gestured but did nothing. Ex-President Alfonso López and ex-Candidate Darío Echandia merely left Bogota for the inauguration weekend. Liberal newspapers ignored all news of the inauguration, of President Pérez and President-elect Gómez...
Despite martial law and political stalemate, the killings which characterized Gómez' election campaign had not ended. Bragged one police lieutenant: "We're killing a thousand a week in the country. We figure we've got 15,000 to go." In Bogota particularly, murders, rapes and other violence by the police seemed to be increasing...
Aspirin & Peace. After 40 years of behind-the-scenes politicking, usually as a member of the out-of-power faction, clever Laureano Gómez, 61, took his inauguration in full stride. He pledged non-violent democratic government, but claimed that the state of siege was still necessary to preserve peace. Said he: "We'll give the patient aspirin as long as the fever continues." The Liberals, Gómez said, "won't recognize me. I respect their point of view. For them I am not President, so naturally I cannot appoint them [to my government...
This week, with the Liberal judges conspicuously absent, bulky, cold-eyed Laureano Gómez was sworn in before nine of the 16 members of the Supreme Court. In his inauguration speech, in the Salón Eliptico of the Capitol, Gómez praised U.S. action in Korea, and promised Colombians reconstruction of their country "on firm and austere bases." The ending of his speech was apt: "We men are only blades of grass in the hands of God. May His omnipotent hand save Colombia...