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...candidate for President next May: "The traditional parties have lost contact with a certain sector of the population." He meant the thousands of excampesinos who squat in squalid shacks surrounding Bogota and Cartagena and have been growing restive under the lackluster rule of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia. During the campaign, Rojas drew enthusiastic crowds with his vivid lectures on economics, in which he argued that the way to get the peso on a par with the dollar was to "lock up all Colombians with money outside the country and not let them go until they bring back...
...VENEZUELA Volunteers will teach their specialties in universities in Caracas, Merida, Valencia and at the four campuses of the University of the Orient in eastern Venezuela...
...established eight years ago between Colombia's Liberals and Conservatives, the two warring parties are supposed to alternate the presidency and join in a single National Front to develop their rich nation. For the past three years, under the wavering hand of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia, there has been little development, and even less unity. The economy is in tatters, while the front has split into so many quarreling factions that its official candidate in the May 1966 elections, Liberal Carlos Lleras Restrepo, withdrew from the race...
...dynamite an oil pipeline, or raid some remote village. Last week one band clashed with government troops 200 miles south of Caracas, and when the shooting was over two guerrillas and two soldiers were dead. In neighboring Colombia, long troubled by a siege of backlands banditry, President Guillermo Leon Valencia's biggest headache is "Sure Shot" Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, who leads some 100 guerrillas and killed 17 people on one recent backlands raid. Another 150 guerrillas are operating in the Guatemala countryside, the most important group led by Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a onetime army lieutenant...
Dark Conspiracies. Until the reforms take hold, Valencia is pleading with labor unions to "give the government a chance to repair the damage wrought by Congress and the last Cabinet." He is getting scant sympathy. More than 92,000 unpaid schoolteachers and clerks and 18,000 employees of Colombia's judiciary system were on strike last week, and 45 major unions have called a general strike for Oct. 1. Many Colombians are simply throwing up their hands. Eugenio GÓmez GÓmez, a member of Valencia's own party, flatly turned down the President...