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Senator Carlos Lleras Restrepo shot 63 questions at Rojas in 60 minutes. Rojas made stumbling replies. The general was unable to show that a company he formed to carry out his moneymaking deals while President had ever paid taxes or kept books. When asked how come his personal fortune grew so fast when he was President, Rojas replied: "Gifts from Colombians and foreigners...
...week's end, perhaps the best indication of the tension in Bogotá was the fact that Liberal ex-President Alfonso López and Liberal Chieftain Carlos Lleras Restrepo, whose houses had been burned by the same mobs that sacked El Tiempo, took asylum in the Venezuelan embassy...
Several months ago, the city government decided that the bordellos, scattered across six suburban boroughs, were blocking the development of new residential areas. In September, Secretary of Government Alfonso Restrepo Moreno framed a decree to resettle the girls in Barrio Antioquia, a factory workers' suburb proud of its four schools, its church, its library and civic center...
Indignation committees stormed Restrepo's office, but he ducked out and pushed ahead with his plan. Barrio Antioquia's schools were closed; one became a barracks for 40 cops, another was selected for a prophylactic clinic. In block after block, red lights appeared over open doors as the first 1,000 girls moved in. Jukeboxes, protected by wrought-iron frames, competed with noisy drunken laughter...
Last week, fed up with the turmoil he created, Restrepo resigned. But it was a kind of Pyrrhic victory for Barrio Antioquia's defenders. Said the suburb's Padre Abel Diez, who had fought the red-light invasion: "There were insults; they threw rocks at my house and I could never sleep. We closed the church today. The decent people will have to leave...