Word: pinilla
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Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last week ceremoniously founded a Third Force political movement for Colombia, the only country in South America that has preserved until now the once-standard two-party system. As Rojas explained it, the Third Force will make no pitch for support from the "odious politicians" and the "oligarchs" of the historic Liberal and Conservative Parties. Rather it will stand, like the old Peronista Party in Argentina, on two legs: labor and the army...
...thunderclap of ecclesiastical anger cracked last week around the ears of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia's Roman Catholic President. It was set off by the Lenten pastoral letter of Crisanto Cardinal Luque, couched in the measured terms of churchly tradition, yet unmistakably a cry of cold indignation against the recent bull ring massacre (TIME, Feb. 20) in which Rojas' political opponents were maimed and killed by government thugs for having booed his daughter at the bullfights the week before...
...other publications were permitted to reprint El Catolicismo's stern words; clandestine duplicates were passed from hand to hand and read avidly. But the reprints were not the only notable news reports in circulation. Two important Bogota dailies, both suppressed by Rojas Pinilla, popped up again last week under pen names. Internationally respected El Tiempo reappeared as El Intermedia (Interlude), and El Espectador as El Inde-pendiente. In makeup, typography and content, down to the smallest detail, both papers were identical with their forerunners. Such transparent disguise presumably meant that Strongman Rojas, smarting under criticism, was willing...
Colombia (pop. 12,650,000). President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla presides over a country that is politically in a state of siege and emotionally in a state of shock. Although he has built up the country (see below), he has let a quick temper lead him into harsh police-state methods (TIME, Feb. 20) and an unmatched record as a newspaper-killer. The betting is that, one way or another...
Last month, with planning far enough along for construction to begin, C.V.C. asked President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, chips down, whether it could have the heavy grants needed to get going. The President unhesitatingly pledged the government to spend $64 million...