Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: X. Colombia

Collection:: Economics Books

COLOMBIA 117 white, black and Indian in varying propor tion, over 300,000 of whom are negroes and mulattoes. Little can be hoped for from the majority of these people owing to their poor source of origin and the climatic conditions which surround them. The Government recognizes the doctrine of states rights, and is republican in form with the usual branches, judicial, legislative and ex ecutive. A President with two Vice-Presi dents represent the executive control, and the legislative body is composed of a Senate and House of Representatives. The mountainous topography of Colombia has had much to do with the scarcity of rail ways, rendering them expensive in construc tion and owing to the great distance between possible termini, likely to make them profit less ventures. There are about 630 miles of railroads in Colombia, many of them supple mental to river transportation, or connecting ports with interior towns. It is doubtful if this condition will ever alter materially. The trade of Colombia is carried chiefly on

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