Word: bogot
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. Archbishop Ismael Perdomo, 78, political-minded Roman Catholic Primate of Colombia; in Bogotá. A conservative on most issues in his nation's fiercely partisan politics, Archbishop Perdomo sternly condemned the political use of violence and fraud, gained the enmity of Conservative Strong Man (now President-elect) Laureano...
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...
Experts wrote essays proving that the bambuco had been the national dance all along. So far as Bogotá was concerned, the rumba, samba and the tango had a new and potent rival...
Next morning the poets took off for what they hoped would be a more amiable reception in Bogotá. The 13 critics were still in jail and there was no telling, said the chief of Venezuela's National Security Police, how long they would be there...
Last week in Washington, the Foreign Policy Association, taking note of the big postwar crop of military coups, reported "the persisting feeling that, in practice, recent U.S. policy has redounded to the advantage of repressive regimes in Latin America." Bogotá's newspaper; El Liberal went much further. "Formerly," it said, "the fundamental condition to be an ally of the U.S. was to be democratic; now it is to be anti-Russian. The old democratic friends of the U.S. are now criticized as pro-Russian." Right or wrong, these and other Latin American views would once more be assured...