Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales

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Index Page numbers in italics refer to maps and tables. Acción Comunal (AC), 90–91 Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO), 97 Acevedo Ardila, Telmo, 67, 70 ACPO. See Acción Cultural Popular Acta de Compromiso, 42 Administrative changes: Catholic Church and, 112–13; from territories to departments, 108–12 African palm oil, 125, 128, 136 Agrarian reform, in National Front, 85–86 Agrarian Reform Law (1961), 98, 102 Aljure, Dumar, 40, 50, 57, 63, 75, 78, 106 Alliance for Progress, 79, 90 Amazon, 12, 16, 96–97, 123; Peru invasion of, 54; public works in, 140 Amazon basin, viii, 130–31 Amazonia, vii, 88, 98, 109, 140 Amerindians, 15, 23, 31, 131, 143, 161n51 Amnesty of guerrillas, 75; by Rojas Pinilla, 29, 30, 55 Andean cordillera, vii–ix, 89, 94–95 Andes Mountains, vii Antisocial movement, 56 Anti-tuberculosis, 45 ANUC. See Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos Apostolic Prefecture of Arauca, 9, 19 Apostolic Vicariate of Casanare, 23–24 Apostolic Vicariate of San Martín, 17 Arango Vélez, Carlos, 157n8 Arauca, vii, viii, 42; Apostolic Prefecture of, 9, 19; Caja Agraria in, 70; cattle ranch in, 19–20; economy, 19; education and public works in, 20, 70; as first comisaría, 9; Gaitán’s death and, 38; Liberal Party and, 19, 20; missionaries in, 2; Rojas Pinilla regime impact on, 67–68. See also Comisaría de Arauca Arauca City: junta in, 91; medical facilities, 20 Araucanos: Liberal Party support by, 32; military force of, 71 Arawak, 2 Ariari region, 106–7, 115; colonization of, 73 Armed forces, 56–57, 115; coup support by, 30; Rojas Pinilla and, 74–75 Army of National Liberation. See Ejército de Liberación Nacional Article 78 (Constitution), 5 ASCATIDAR. See Association of Cabildos and Traditional Indigenous Authorities of the Department of Arauca Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos (ANUC), 90–91, 164n39 Assassination, of Gaitán, 1, 28, 29, 36–38, 51 Association of Cabildos and Traditional Indigenous Authorities of the Department of Arauca (ASCATIDAR), 123 Atavismo y traumaturgia; cosmos del diosonamuto (Baquero), 135 AVIANCA airline, 62, 95, 154n28 Baquero, Omar, 139–40 Baquero Nariño, Alberto, 135–36, 141 Barco Vargas, Virgilio, 26, 108, 110, 126 Battle of Boyacá, 31 Bautista, Pablo, 50 Bautista, Tulio, 40, 42, 50 Index 180 Belaúnde Terry, Fernando, 94–95 Betancur, Belisario, 108, 114, 122 Bogotá, viii, 29, 108 Bogotá-Villavicencio highway, 14, 15, 73, 91–92, 100–101; improvements in, 22, 124, 132, 164n42; López expansion of, 17; opening of, 32 Bolívars, Venezuelan, 17, 19 Boyacá, 31, 81; Casanare incorporation into, 5, 22–27; political unrest in, 34–36 Boyacense, 23, 56, 118 BP. See British Petroleum Brazil, 11, 139, 141 British Petroleum (BP), 116 Bruls, José, 17, 73–74 Brunnschweiler, Dieter, 101, 131, 132, 158n62, 164n42 Bueno R., Arturo, 67, 68 Bushnell, David, 65, 74, 139 Caja Agraria, 61, 62; in Arauca, 70; in Vichada, 68–69 Caja de Crédito Agrario, 20, 60, 62, 89 Cámara de Representantes, 45 Camino del Sarare, 92–93, 101 Campesinos, 40–42, 78, 113, 118, 136; expulsion, 60, 64; guerrillas defense of, 106–7; National Front assistance to, 90 El caso Llanero: Villavicencio (Baquero), 135 Caquetá, 7–9, 60–61, 89–90, 94, 105, 116 Cárdenas Ojeda, Lisimaco: Liberal officeholders removal by, 33; the Llanos governing by, 32 Carretera Marginal de la Selva, 93–94 Casanare, vii, viii, 163n19; Apostolic Vicariate of, 23–24; cattle ranching in, 124; crop production in, 103; incorporation into Boyacá, 5, 22–27; missionaries in, 2; political unrest in, 34–36; regime impact on, 67–68 Casanareños, 35, 126 Castellanos, Manuel, 32–33 Castro, Fidel, 80, 105 Catholic Church, 55, 98, 153n12; administrative changes and, 112–13; Liberals persecution by, 29; as national religion, 7; power, 13, 112 Cattle ranch, 4, 31, 35, 47, 136; in Arauca, 19–20; Bogotá-Villavicencio highway, 100–101; in Casanare, 124; cattle transport and, 48; as economic asset, 56; economic development of, 100–101, 124–25; Lamo Pulido on, 71 Central government, 56; aid from, 71, 111, 116; influence, 97 Charter of 1936, 13 Chary, Arturo, 67, 69, 70, 72 Chulavitas armies, 38, 156n2; invasion of, 28; of Ospina Pérez, 29–30 Cold War, 80 Colombia: geographic diversity of, vii; historiography change in, ix, 131–32; national territories of, 10; nineteenth-century territorial experiments, 5–7; Venezuela treaty with, 14, 17 Colombia: Territorial Rule and the Llanos Frontier (Rausch), viii “Colombia es mi patria,” 52 Colombian...