Word: florencia
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...been expropriated from large landholders and are now farmed cooperatively by 62,000 peasant families. Next week, according to the government, the final block of 875,000 acres will be similarly taken over. TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week visited one of the new cooperatives, the 960-acre Finca Florencia, a coffee plantation 24 miles northwest of San Salvador. His report...
...jungle airstrip was hardly big enough, but a Colombian air force DC-4 touched down to unload a most unmilitary cargo: beds, trunks, dogs, chickens and 64 stony-faced peasants who had been strapped in the bucket seats. The peasants were homesteaders arriving at the outpost town of Florencia to start a new life in Colombia's rich but remote southwest. By sunset, the air force plane was back in Bogota, 240 miles away, with a load of hardwood...
This week, after having served five days in jail, as a warning not to repeat his escapade, Cliserio Reyes returned to Florencia a hero. He told his friends: "Now you know I mean it when I say I'm going to fly." From now on, no one would doubt it for a minute...
...bleak, cotton-growing Ejido Florencia, back in the hills from the northern city of Torreón, the name of Cliserio Reyes was a standing joke. While other boys of his age in the small farming community interested themselves in girls or beisbol, 18-year-old Cliserio spent all his spare time and meager pocket money building model airplanes. To repeated gibes, and pleas from his friends to abandon such foolishness, he replied flatly: "Some day I'm going...
Since that time some 15 attempts have been made to salvage the Florencia's treasure. They yielded handfuls of gold and silver coin, a cannon designed by Benvenuto Cellini, the skeleton of a boy, some silver plate etched with Spanish arms, religious medals, ammunition and boarding pikes. But under the silt of years the bulk of the Spanish treasure still, presumably, lies where it sank, tucked securely "beneathe ye sell of ye gunroome...