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Cabinet ministers come and go in the government of President Guillermo Leon Valencia, 55, and Colombians generally pay little attention. Last week one minister who had been loyally with Valencia for 21 years was out of a job, and the country was agog...
...route must be chosen soon. Out side of Panama, there are two possible routes under consideration: one through Costa Rica and Nicaragua; the other through Colombia. In the preliminary talks, the top men in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as Colombia's Guillermo Leon Valencia, were anxious to negotiate. The U.S. is not presenting Panama with any ultimatums, but it hopes that the country will soon decide where its true interests...
...Army General Alberto Ruiz Novoa, 48, Colombia's war minister and its most compelling public figure (TIME, Dec. 11). Commander of Colombia's small force in the Korean War, he established a reputation as a reformer in uniform after Valencia brought him into the Cabinet in 1962. At the time, the country was plagued by poverty-fed badlands banditry that had been going on unabated for more than a decade. Ruiz Novoa initiated a program of civic action by the army to help peasants improve their lot. He also reorganized Colombia's army into what is today...
Colombia's President Guillermo Leon Valencia flatly called the raid "Castro-Communist-inspired." Despite the widespread lawlessness in the surrounding countryside, Simacota had never before been troubled by bandits. The uniforms, armbands, methods and message all pointed to Castro...
...guerrilla training in Cuba. Bogotá's El Tiempo reported an anonymous call from a woman who warned that the Simacota raid was the first phase of "Operación Esperanza"-Operation Hope. "Soon you will have another surprise," she said. Figuring one such surprise was enough, President Valencia ordered helicopter-equipped anti-guerrilla troops into the hills to hunt down Mariela and her marauders...