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Died. Crisanto Cardinal Luque, 70, aggressive, socially conscious Roman Catholic cardinal, first to be named in Colombia, who acidly attacked and helped unseat Colombia's corrupt Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953-57); of a lung hemorrhage; in Bogotá, Colombia...
Dramatic by itself, the fall in fatalities is even more startling in light of the fact that Colombia's government is only half functioning. Forced into a 1957 alliance to overthrow Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the perpetually warring Liberal and Conservative parties invented a rigid agreement to divide political power equally for the next 16 years. Every political organism, from Congress to town councils, was neatly bisected. Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo last August took the first four-year stint as President, with the understanding that he would be succeeded by a Conservative...
Following up its conviction of former Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla for abusing power and enriching himself in office (TIME, March 30), the Colombian Senate last week abolished all Rojas' political rights, all his titles and honors. As he signed a document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order...
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the ex-strongman who regarded his country as his own private cooky jar, finally got his just desert. By a vote of 62-4 and 65-1, the Colombian Senate convicted Rojas of "overstepping his authority" and of "using the office of President to increase, in an unlawful form, his assets and those of others." It was the first time a Colombian ex-President faced the music since 1867, when General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera was convicted of setting up a monopoly on the sale of salt...
...former dictator faced the music last week in Colombia, and it was not a pretty tune. On trial by Colombia's Senate and charged with using the presidency for personal enrichment was General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 58, deposed in 1957 by a popular revolution. If the Senate decides that Rojas is guilty, it can deprive him of "civil rights," e.g., the right to vote, and it can remand him to the Supreme Court for trial on criminal charges. If the charges stick, Rojas may find himself behind prison bars...