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...candidate-Carlos Lleras Restrepo, a longtime Liberal firebrand and a man with many enemies. This month, the Front's divisions exploded into the open when a splinter faction of Valencia's own Conservative Party and a dissident Liberal group joined with followers of ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to form an anti-Front coalition. With 126 of Congress' 282 seats, the coalition has more than the one-third necessary to block all government legislation and be come, as Valencia himself admits, "unbearable opposition." Rojas seeks more than that. "In the congressional elections next March," he vows...
...Premature." Some bullfight. The frente has split into several factions. One Conservative band consistently criticizes Valencia's policies, and a left-wing offshoot of the Liberal Party has even thrown its support to ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, whose National Popular Alliance Party went from six to 28 seats after the March congressional elections. "We shall take the government by fair means or foul," vows Rojas, whose followers have taken to wearing a Nazi-like party uniform...
...Congress, but Bogota's capitol building still rings with the shrill cries of the same opposition. Its aim is the overthrow of President Valencia and the end of the fragile, six-year-old coalition of Liberals and Conservatives that governs Colombia. The opposition's leader: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, a deposed and discredited ex-dictator who is making a surprising comeback. Right now, Rojas and his followers are little more than a swarm of annoying gnats, but the swarm is growing...
...COLOMBIA: In elections to fill half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies, an old, deposed dictator pulled off a disturbing ballot-box coup. Ex-General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, tough right-wing dictator from 1953 until he was overthrown in 1957, is barred by law from politics, lives in semi-exile in his backlands home. Under no such restraint, his resurgent party lambasted President Guillermo León Valencia's bipartisan government for higher income taxes, deficit spending and spiraling living costs. Rojas-backed candidates piled up 21% of the vote, to win 27 seats...
Successive governments sent troops in, but the terrain and guerrilla tactics of the peasant gangs proved too much. In 1953, Military Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla granted an amnesty; when that failed, he bombed villages harboring bandits and imprisoned entire communities. In 1958, the Liberals and Conservatives finally patched up their differences and formed the Frente Nacional coalition, hoping to restore peace. But the violence raged on. Besides military action, President Alberto Lleras Camargo tried buying off the bandits; one leader collected $15,000, then hurried back to the hills, where he ran his grisly toll to 592 murders before...