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...will bring the take up to about $22,800 for each fight. In his twelve years in the bull ring he has made a little under $2,000,000, and he has salted a lot of it away-some of it in Spanish hunting lodges and preserves, some in Colombian and Brazilian coffee investments, some in the National City Bank of New York...
...During World War II, having temporarily laid aside his editorial responsibilities to serve as Colombia's President, El Tiempo's Santos ranged his country at the side of the U.S. His newspaper, printing not only first-rate world news but daily dispatches from correspondents in scores of Colombian cities, became a national newspaper, read from the Caribbean coast to the borders of Ecuador. El Tiempo was Liberal, independent and peace-minded. As such, it was and is a mortal threat to Colombia's little clique of ruling Conservative extremists, who hold power under a 33-month...
Hope rose last week for a truce in Colombia's bitter religious strife. A Colombian Catholic, José Maria Chaves, 29, now teaching at Queens College, New York, and worried about anti-Protestant violence in his homeland, suggested a formula for peace. Its gist: Protestants should agree to a missionary quota, stop publicizing persecution unless new attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and priests. The Roman Catholic Church and the pro-Catholic government should agree to denounce and punish anti-Protestant assaults, guarantee freedom of worship...
Freedom of Propaganda. The government in Bogotá decided that freedom of religion, guaranteed under the Colombian constitution, does not imply "freedom of propaganda." Protestants were forbidden to distribute tracts. Last March, Protestant radio programs in Bogotá were ruled...
...nine-year-old Motilon boy recently led a settler near Petrolea to a hut in the jungle. In it were two dead Indians and a 15-year-old boy who was almost dead. The nine-year-old and 15-year-old were taken to the hospital of the Colombian Petroleum Co. While they were being nursed back to strength, Ethnologists Jean Caudmont and Francisco Vélez Arango of Bogotá hurried to Petrolea...