Word: colombianizing
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...people of the tiny Colombian village of Pauna, snuggling in the Andean foothills a day's motor drive from Bogotá, the new bridge over the deep, swift Río Minero had seemed as permanent and reassuring as Thornton Wilder's bridge of San Luis Rey. It was made of wood, suspended from steel cables. Across the 100-ft. span, donkey carts rattled, bringing produce to market. Across it, campesinos and the mountain people trudged to Pauna for the Saturday fiestas...
Bogotá's sober, influential El Tiempo spoke the Colombian mind: "Never has the country been in such a trance, and it is all due to the impact of the conference. We hope that March won't find us as January was going to catch...
...with this competition, the U.S. lines, principally Grace,* United Fruit and Lykes, cried for help. They got it from the shipping section of the U.S. State Department; the Embassy in Bogotá was told to point out that Colombia was violating the 1846 treaty of commerce, friendship and navigation. Colombians knew the answer to that one: in the same treaty, the U.S. guaranteed Colombian rights over Panama. The U.S., Colombia claims, violated the treaty when Theodore Roosevelt, as he boasted, "took Panama...
...week's end the Colombian Government had apologized for the rioting. The Foreign Ministry, calling the controversy "important and complex," promised that a solution satisfactory to both countries would be found...
...When the U.S.-inspired revolution broke out in Panama, the U.S. cruiser Nashville and the gunboat Dixie guarded the entrance to Colón's harbor, to prevent landing of Colombian troops. The U.S. promptly recognized Panama's independence. Within a month the new republic granted the U.S. control over a ten-mile strip of land that was to become the Canal Zone...