Word: colombianizing
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...total $200,000. The references are contained in a letter written in 1968 by a Lockheed agent in Bogotá to Lockheed's Georgia office when Colombia was ready to buy a third Lockheed Hercules transport for about $2 million. The agent assured his superiors that even though the Colombian military budget was being cut, the air force officers could "justify the true necessity for more equipment in order to guarantee the national security." Then he added: "Just between you and me, this is not exactly true?as you can imagine?but the important point for us is that they...
...liberating humanity and the world. Sin is anything that resists or undercuts this process, or any oppression of one person-or group-by another. Salvation lies in a commitment to love of neighbor and thus a willingness to fight oppression, with revolution if need be. Camilo Torres, the Colombian guerrilla priest who was shot down by government troops in 1966, is the folk hero of liberation theology...
...acquired sovereignty over the zone "in perpetuity" in 1903, as a reward for helping Panama to achieve its independence. Roosevelt had sent U.S. gunboats to protect a Panamanian national uprising-funded by private American and French interests-against the territory's Colombian rulers. In exchange for control of the Canal Zone, the U.S. paid a total of $10 million to the fledgling national government and agreed to pay $250,000 annually in rent. Building the canal cost the U.S. an additional $336,650,000. It is now an international commercial convenience rather than a U.S. military necessity; in fiscal...
...navigator on a wooden Navy sub-chaser that chugged slowly across the Pacific and into Hawaii at the end of the war. He has served his country since, and more actively, as assistant general counsel to the Far East mission of AID and deputy director of AID's Colombian mission. In both areas, he channeled funds and manipulated economic policy. Once in Colombia, when the mission felt that the government was not making enough of a commitment with its own pesos to the progress of education in the country, it threatened to withdraw all U.S. assistance. The Colombian government shelled...
...liberal magnanimity that seems to make such imperialistic endeavor palatable. He says that it is important that South American countries are "healthy" and democratic, and an inevitable aspect of this condition is capitalistic enterprise. He does not call this imperialism and cites such actions as the encouragement of Colombian beef production to the detriment of American cattle interests. Fisher justifies the American presence in an underdeveloped country: "You can say that we ought to leave the Colombian under the palm tree because he's happy there. But I don't think he's happy--he's missing things...