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...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...
...story into print, Medellin's responsible El Colombiano, was closed down by the device of moving the government's censorship office to an out-of-town military post, where editors were ordered to bring all copy. Since the same move shut two other Medellin papers, Rojas Pinilla, who has blotted out all of Bogotá's oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship and reappeared. But their prospects were gloomy under Rojas...