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Morning after the elections in which the Soviet dictatorship of the proletariat ratified its contempt for the democratic process of free popular choice, the three Americans appointed by the State Department to observe the show went off to an interview with Nikita Khrushchev at the Communist Party's stucco-front headquarters near the Kremlin. The Americans-Cyril E. Black, professor of modern European history at Princeton University; Richard Scammon, director of elections research for Washington's Governmental Affairs Institute; and Hedley Donovan, managing editor of FORTUNE-were official guests of the Soviet government, repaying a visit that three...
Fifty-Fifty for Peace. Colombia's Conservatives and Liberals went to the elections to pick a Congress, the first after nine years of dictatorship and state of siege. They voted under a very special set of ground rules devised by Laureano Gómez and Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo. Because Colombian political strife runs readily to bloodshed, the parties agreed to split the seats in Congress exactly half and half...
...reopen the question and agree that unless León Valencia won the approval of a majority of the new Congress, he would no longer be the joint candidate. Now León Valencia is bitter. "If I had not entered the battle against Rojas Pinilla's dictatorship last year," he said last week, "Gómez would still be in Barcelona." He thereupon announced that if Lleras Camargo and Gómez name some other Conservative as the bipartisan candidate, he himself will also run and thus again open the door to dangerous strife and rivalry...
...force that impelled Batista to drop the mantle of conciliation and move to open dictatorship was a sudden, unexpected threat from Cuba's judiciary. While proclaiming "we love democracy," the President had long winked at the activities of a small group of police and military men whose rough stuff and tortures helped to cow the discontented. Three weeks ago, during the "free" period, eleven Havana judges hit at the police for refusing to honor writs of habeas corpus, declaring they had "never seen the administration of Cuban justice so mocked and reviled." A fortnight ago, the judicial attack sharpened...
Even as Venezuela makes the tricky passage from dictatorship to democracy, pressure mounts in the U.S. Congress for a measure that would deal Venezuela a hard economic blow. U.S. crude-oil import restrictions, now on a voluntary basis that has already pinched Venezuela painfully, may be tightened and made mandatory. Unless all Venezuela understands the facts of the dropping oil market, restrictions may seem like U.S. disapproval of Venezuela's democratic trend...