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...choice Conservative candidate win. Four years later, panicky Conservative leaders closed Congress, put Colombia under a state of siege, imposed their most forceful caudillo, Laureano Gómez, as President. Bitter interparty rural fighting, in which 20,000 died, finally led to a military dictatorship under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Modest, brainy Alberto Lleras, meanwhile, moved to Washington and a prestigious appointment as Secretary General of the Organization of American States...
Under two dictators-Laureano Gómez and Gustavo Rojas Pinilla-Protestant missionaries in the Colombian backwoods were victims of a nine-year campaign of terror and violence aimed at chasing them out of the country. They were jailed, beaten, run out of town. Their schools and churches were padlocked, sometimes burned and dynamited, and it was decreed unlawful for any Protestant missionary to minister to any Colombian citizen. Last week, with Rojas five months gone, there were signs that the anti-Protestant pressure was easing...
Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's military advisers, seems to welcome the formula that will let it return the country to civilian control. Brigadier General Rafael Navas Pardo, the most militaristic of the junta's generals, has bluntly told all company commanders and military state governors that under no circumstances would the junta continue in office after August 1958, the date set for the inauguration of a civilian President...
...fall of dictatorships all over South America has left Venezuela's General Marcos Perez Jiménez a lonely military strongman. Gone are Peru's General Manuel Odría, Argentina's General Juan Perón, Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. For a bird-of-a-feather to help him celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day, President Pérez Jiménez could find only President Alfredo Stroessner of tiny, backward Paraguay. Flags of the two countries flew side by side all over Caracas last week as General Stroessner and a party...
Church leaders in Colombia showed striking courage during the final year of Dictator Rojas Pinilla. Pastoral letters issued by Crisanto Cardinal Luque last year, one of them condemning Rojas' "Third Force'' political movement, were the first serious whacks at the strongman's prestige. During the brief spate of violence the churches sheltered rebels, and when it was all over jubilant monks streamed out making victory signs to the cheering crowds. Luque has since warned the military junta that replaced Rojas that it must turn over power in free elections or lose church support...