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Successive governments sent troops in, but the terrain and guerrilla tactics of the peasant gangs proved too much. In 1953, Military Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla granted an amnesty; when that failed, he bombed villages harboring bandits and imprisoned entire communities. In 1958, the Liberals and Conservatives finally patched up their...
It was a little like a treasure hunt. At 6:30 p.m. one evening last week, the phone rang at Caracas' daily El Nacional. The caller's curious request: check the ashtray near the elevator on the second floor. At the same time, editors of La Repú...
Brazil's recent practice of expropriating U.S. companies was proving both expensive and risky. In February 1962, the state government in Rio Grande do Sul expropriated Companhia Telefônica Nacional, an International Telephone and Telegraph subsidiary. Five months later, the governor of Pernambuco took over a subsidiary of...
Since then, the Indians have joined forces with the M.N.R. (Movimiento Nacional Revolucianaria), the revolutionary party that is now in power. They have obtained electoral reforms and the nationalization of the tin industry, as well as the breaking up of large feudal estates.
Already considerable progress has been made in getting Goa's administration back into working order. Finance Ministry officials are drafting a new budget that will bring the former colony under the economic supervision of the central government, and the State Bank of India has taken over Goa's...