Word: tiempos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bogotá's Liberals were incensed; in their partisan zeal, they jumped on the Liberator himself. Wrote German Arciniegas, historian and essayist, in El Tiempo: "Bolívar never believed in democracy, and . . . his contempt for the law and confidence in dictatorship overflowed . . . His formula was dictatorship backed by the army and the archbishops...
Dollars & Influence. Many other Latin American countries thought that was a good idea. The Chilean Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted in favor of calling a Latin American conference "in defense of raw materials." Bogotá's El Tiempo cried, "Where is the good will?" Fishing in the troubled waters, Perón's revamped La Prensa sneered at "the Good Neighbor policy that is good only for one neighbor [meaning...
...Korea. In Santiago, the dollar sagged from 109 to 81 pesos in brisk free-market trading. Crowds gathered quickly to read news bulletins in Mexico City's Bucareli Street, radio stations increased their newscasts. "The measures which the great nations now take," said Bogota's El Tiempo, "will affect all of us. We enter into a grave period...
Because of Colombia's rigid internal censorship, Bogota's famed Liberal daily, El Tiempo, keeps a guarded silence about political developments at home. But when considering the affairs of her hemisphere neighbors, El Tiempo aims and fires at will. Last week El Tiempo drew a bead on Argentina's President Juan Domingo Perón, whose followers recently celebrated Loyalty Day (TIME, Oct. 30), known also to thousands of Argentines as "Saint Perón's Day." Said El Tiempo...
...Naturally," explained El Tiempo with a sly dig at Colombian President Laureano Gómez, "all this has nothing to do with us here in Colombia. But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type. Perhaps the canonization of Saint Odría of Peru and Saint Trujillo of the Dominican Republic already is in the works. When the day comes that there are five or seven heavenly governments in this hemisphere, it will be the last bell for democracy...