Word: pinilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise to power of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla differs from that of the stereotyped Latin American strongman: he toppled not a fairly elected government but a dictatorial regime that most Colombians were sick of. The country cheered, believing that the army, which had traditionally let civilians run the country, would shepherd Colombia back to elections and normality. But the soldiers have inevitably come to like the feel of power. Last week, on the second anniversary of President Rojas Pinilla's revolution, there were plentiful signs that the army is digging in for a long stay...
Married. Maria Eugenia Pinilla, 21, daughter of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia; and Samuel Moreno, 33, lawyer and director of the influential Conservative daily, Diario de Colombia; in Bogota, Colombia...
President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla is more moderate, but seemingly feels that he must go right down the line with his Conservative Party on its most heartfelt plank, union of church and state. He has increasingly turned the agreement against the Protestants. Such actions inevitably get Colombia a bad press abroad; sensitive Colombians may be astonished to learn that their country is well on the way to earning a reputation for bigotry second, among Western nations, only to Spain...
After Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrew the ultra-Conservative regime of President Laureano Gomez last summer, some U.S. Protestant missionaries hopefully reported an apparent slackening in government restrictions on Protestants in Colombia. But President Rojas is a Conservative too, and state Catholicism is a prime plank of any Conservative government in Colombia. Last September the Rojas regime banned Protestant activity in 18 "mission territories" in remote parts of the country. Last week the government announced a further curb: Protestants may no longer engage in religious activities outside their churches, though within the churches they will not be molested...
...mayors, many of them army officers, for 38 nearby towns. To the south, Rojas sent a bipartisan commission which will report directly to him. Despite these measures, at week's end four more Liberal farmers were killed (two by beheading) by thugs who shouted, "Down with Rojas Pinilla...