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Rule by Junta. President Aramburu does not want to be a strongman, and he is by no means free to be one. He is the head of the military junta which includes Admiral Rojas and the Ministers of Army, Navy and Air. The junta makes the government's decisions by majority vote (until elections, there is no Congress). Aramburu guides the debate and breaks ties. Any single member, if he balks hard enough, can veto any measure. And if the junta were to tell Aramburu that he had lost its confidence, he would step out at once...
...most shameful moment of national life in Latin America comes when a military dictator strikes out the nearly standard constitutional provision forbidding a President to succeed himself, and prolongs his own term. When that moment came last week in Colombia, civilians-students, bankers and priests-told the strongman to go. For the intimate story, see HEMISPHERE, The Strongman Falls...
...period of terror and near-revolution that saw more than 100 killed, President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 57, was out. The overwhelming combination of the Roman Catholic Church, rioting university students, the Liberal and the Conservative Parties and the country's tough-minded bankers and businessmen had brought the strongman tumbling down...
...Path Down. In his early days, Rojas' peacemaking might have worked. After he overthrew Dictator Laureano Gómez in 1953, he was hailed as the savior of Colombia. But one year later Rojas' tragic flaw-the strongman's inability to accept criticism-began to show through. With a heavy hand he began censoring newspapers, finally suppressed Bogotá's two leading dailies, El Tiempo and El Espectador. From there his path led only downward. His soldiers and cops shot down political opponents and students. By spending uncounted millions on arms and post-exchange luxuries aimed...
Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's barefaced drive to re-elect himself President of Colombia piled up enough opposition last week to bring it to a shaky halt. Joined to thwart the strongman's second-term ambitions, the Roman Catholic Church under Crisanto Cardinal Luque, the newly united Liberal and Conservative Parties and the belligerent university students took direct action. Caught by surprise, the President hesitated. Then he moved what he said were 35,000 troops into Bogotá to regain control...