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...entire life. As far to the right as his friend, Spain's Franco, he led and symbolized Colombia's Conservative Party during its long years out of power. In 1945, when the Liberals split over presidential candidates, he pushed the Conservatives' silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez into office. Ospina, under the willful thumb of Gómez, felt obliged to return the favor in 1949. Clamping on a state of siege, using military police to drive Liberals from the rural polls, Ospina dutifully engineered Laureano's election...
Cool Officer. That is how matters stood late last year, when General Rojas Pinilla, a career officer of moderate Conservative sympathies, returned to Bogotá from duty with the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington. What he saw shocked him. His friend Ospina, having announced new presidential ambitions for 1954, was being hounded out of public life by Gómez. The fighting with Liberal guerrillas was still going on, and Rojas' army was being forced to carry out the government's share of the butchery. Laureano was preparing an extremist constitution on the Spanish-Portuguese model, which...
That night Rojas offered the presidency to Ospina, then Urdaneta. When both declined, he took the title for himself, pending new elections, and set up an all-Conservative cabinet including three brother officers. Over the radio from the palace, he promised "clean elections" and "no more bloodshed, no more quarrels among the sons of Colombia." He also pledged scrupulous observance of all international obligations and sent personal greetings to the Colombian battalion in Korea, the only Latin American contingent fighting with the United Nations forces...
Bogotá's art fraternity was enthusiastic about Rodriguez' luminous beauties. The Spanish ambassador asked to borrow two of them for exhibition in Spain. But decency leaguers, known as the beatas (the pious ones), were scandalized. Father Eduardo Ospina, Jesuit professor of art at the Universidad Javeriana, sided with the beatas: "Crowds don't possess the artistic capacity to appreciate the total beauty of the human body." Bogotá's Roman Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Crisanto Luque, formally asked the Education Ministry (which runs the museum) to take the offending ladies down...
...Liberal majority in Congress, pledged to convene on the constitutional date of July 20, had bowed to a decree by Conservative President Ospina Pérez forbidding the meeting but granting the Congressmen's usual 600-peso monthly allowance. Some of the Liberals did meet-in the Hotel Granada Rose Room. Sneered El Sigh's columnist, Julio Abril: "They deliberated over a bottle of Vat 69, taking the matter not only with great calm but also with soda...