Word: tolima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bidding for political support, Rojas can no longer claim the popular role of hero-peacemaker. The rural war has flared up again, with discontented backlanders increasingly joining guerrilla bands. In Tolima department last month, troops reportedly rounded up several hundred villagers in an area where several soldiers had been shot from ambush, and as a ruthless gesture of reprisal killed 80 or more of the prisoners. Rojas himself disclosed recently that the official war-death count for January...
...bambuco has a long history in the Colombian countryside. For 100 years, the backlanders of Boyaca and Tolima have danced and sung it with little heed from bogotanos or anybody else. The boyaquenses, a mournful sort, usually sing of the cruel landlord, the icy mountains, the deceived husband. The tolimenses more often compose their songs about their burros, canoes, crops, or sweethearts. Straw-hatted, sandal-shod, machete-lugging mountaineers flirt as they dance to the music. Their girls, swaying and whirling with lifted skirt, respond coquettishly to each advance...
When members of Bogotá's Tolima colony recently brought the bambuco to the capital, instructors had to show the city folk how the bambuco was done. But that was all that was needed. By last week city slickers whistled Pescador, Guabina Chiquinquirena and other mountain favorites as if they had known them all their lives...