Word: pinilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colombia's backlands blood feud between Liberals and Conservatives goes on, only partly muffled by the iron censorship of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Last week, from Strongman Rojas himself, came a communique on the fighting. In one of his rare press interviews, he told the Chicago Daily News's John B. McDermott that this year the struggle has cost 2,000 or more lives...
...Colombia, President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla put on a big show of lifting the government's press censorship, but actually clamped down with a "code of ethics" that banned all stories that stir up politics, "imply lack of respect" for him or for friendly nations, hurt the economy or simply cause disorder...
COLOMBIA Censorship as Usual One of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's proudest acts, soon after he came to power two years ago, was to relax the strict press controls administered by his unpopular predecessor, dictatorial President Laureano Gomez. On one occasion, in the presence of a band of visiting foreign newsmen, Rojas Pinilla turned to the government's chief censor with a grin and forthwith abolished all censorship of outgoing news cables. But last week, no longer so proud, no longer so sure of himself, President Rojas cracked down on the press again...
...government. The President of Venezuela visited Lima in June,, and next week the President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President Velasco Ibarra...
Beclouding his promise of an election in 1958, Rojas Pinilla told the newspaper Diario de Colombia that his government would continue until Colombians-who ran a pretty good working democracy from 1910 to 1946-become "politically civilized." Then he announced that the Constituent Assembly, Colombia's make-do Congress, would not sit this year. "A Parliament," he explained, "is the greatest achievement of democracy, but when it becomes a tribune for libel, it must be closed." The last and plainest word came from the government's radio bulletin, which all Colombian stations are forced to carry. After...