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...ambushed two police trucks, killing eight policemen. Three months after that, Sangre Negra halted a bus, lined up 17 passengers, slaughtered them all. He kidnaped children, carried off women to be raped and murdered, boldly shot it out with the army. Last September, while President Guillermo León Valencia was decorating army officers at Armero in Tolima, Sangre Negra contemptuously sacked a nearby town, Totarito, adding 28 more deaths to the list. Though there is no accurate record, authorities place the blood of 223 on his hands...
...disturbing ballot-box coup. Ex-General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, tough right-wing dictator from 1953 until he was overthrown in 1957, is barred by law from politics, lives in semi-exile in his backlands home. Under no such restraint, his resurgent party lambasted President Guillermo León Valencia's bipartisan government for higher income taxes, deficit spending and spiraling living costs. Rojas-backed candidates piled up 21% of the vote, to win 27 seats v. six in the last Congress. Though the ruling Liberal-Conservative front was still well in control, Rojas' rise could pose...
...Senate, having passed the longevity total of the late Wyoming Republican Francis Warren; and U.S. Ambassador Fulton Freeman, 48, given the Cruz de Boyaca-Colombia's highest award, previously reserved only for heads of state and never before bestowed on a North American-by President Guillermo Valencia, who said of Freeman, soon to move to Mexico: "The most extraordinary ambassador Colombia has ever...
...violence raged on. Besides military action, President Alberto Lleras Camargo tried buying off the bandits; one leader collected $15,000, then hurried back to the hills, where he ran his grisly toll to 592 murders before he himself was killed last year. Not until President Guillermo Leon Valencia was elected in 1962 did the bandit war take a turn for the better. The man responsible: Major General Alberto Ruiz Novoa, Valencia's battle-tough war minister and commander of the Colombian detachment that fought in Korea. Says Ruiz: "We learned from Cyprus, Algeria and other such experiences that...
Another Country. Striking closer to the heart of the problem is Venezuela, which is seeking to develop brand-new industrial complexes away from the overburdened major cities. The once-somnolent town of Valencia, 100 miles west of Caracas, is now a booming industrial city of 220,000 population with plenty of job opportunities and no slums to speak of. A second new industrial complex is going up along the Orinoco and Caroni Rivers in eastern Venezuela. Chile also hopes to spread job opportunities by building two new industrial centers out in farm provinces...