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Tanned from a vacation at his 600-acre ranch near the Caribbean. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla returned last week to the chilly Colombian capital of Bogota. In sunny spirits, he plunged into his work at the palace. One night, tall in a well-fitting, medal-spangled general's dress uniform, he presided with rare good humor at the annual presidential reception for the diplomatic corps...
Largely obscured by more dramatic conflicts in Europe, Africa and Asia, one of history's bloodiest struggles goes silently on in Colombia. In the eight-year-old strife between the Colombian army and anti-government guerrillas, the death toll, according to President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, tops 100,000-three times greater than battle deaths among U.S. forces in Korea-in a country with a population of only 13 million. Last week TIME correspondent Piero Saporiti toured the front lines of this almost-forgotten battleground. His report...
Colombia's President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, unlike Perón, is bent on no zany program of economic change. He is a professional military officer thrown by the chance of a 1953 revolution into the strong-man leadership of the almost 13 million people of South America's third most populous country (after Brazil and Argentina). Preoccupied with the politics of staying in power, he failed to keep a sufficiently attentive eye on the economy. Now the figures add up to a mess (see chart...
What happened to the missing millions? New York banks and exporters put a big part of the blame on unreported government spending abroad. In particular, the pampered armed forces, Rojas Pinilla's main prop, are buying heavily, both of military hardware and of such luxuries as canned beer and TV sets, to be sold cheaply to soldiers...
When the first shock of disaster had worn off, bitter questions arose. What was in the trucks? Public Works Department dynamite, said the government. How was the explosion set off? President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla blamed "political saboteurs." Why were six trucks, loaded with so deadly a cargo, allowed to spend the night in a crowded city? That was a question Cali would never stop asking...