Word: valencia
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...Punta massacre was the latest bloody eruption of "la violencia," the backland killings-part political, part savagery-that have taken more than 300,000 lives in Colombia in the past 14 years. Last week President Guillermo Leon Valencia, just one month in office, called on his Cabinet to draft a bill giving him greater power to establish police stations in rural areas, provide stiffer penalties for violence, and funds to combat banditry...
...quiet Liberal statesman who has saved his violently partisan country from civil war, completes his full four-year term. When he leaves, he will pass on the seal of presidential office to a man who, under other circumstances, might be his most dangerous enemy−Guillermo Leon Valencia, a Conservative...
Today, thanks to an enterprising Venezuelan firm called INSA (for Industrias Integradas), a clutch of U.S. companies have found a way to outflank the new restrictions-a way that is not only legal but encouraged by the Venezuelan government. In a sprawling, $3.6 million plant now under construction at Valencia in Venezuela's industrial "Golden Triangle," INSA plans to manufacture a dozen different products under license from nine U.S. firms ranging from Rhode Island's Fram Corp. (oil, gas and air filters) to RCA Whirlpool (refrigerators, washing machines and gas ranges). The U.S. firms will get royalties...
firms will send their own technicians to Valencia for periodic inspections...
...would the Liberals give way peaceably to the Conservatives? Last week Colombia's voters reaffirmed the truce by electing as Lleras' successor. Conservative Guillermo León Valencia, 53, with an overwhelming 1,643,020 votes. Valencia is a far different politician from the patient, persuasive Lleras. A fiery orator, flowery poet and crack pistol shot, he once stood up to a dictator's besieging troops armed with a .32 revolver, and by bluster and reputation he drove the soldiers away. Anti-Communist and pro-U.S., he puts his faith in the Alliance for Progress...