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10/9/1942 - From Lima to the United States, Returning by Francis W. Herron

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FH October Economics Depart_met Io State College Iowa Dear Rogers Belatedly letter covering Buenos Aires being Sine Septembrr United States though almost continually having traveled manner Miami New York iYashington Chicago Askegon Chicago Des Nioines Boons Ia Sibley Ames where I period It since I asked asked questions directed Bt beside point For tinuity I still Lima i4iami oughly ninth September until arrival Miami evening September I Bolivar Great Colambia In tiose Greater Colmbia consisted Venezuela Ecuador Panama New Granada 3pecifically Pana airline follows course Lima Chiclayo Tulari Peru Guayaquil cuador Cali Colembia Bal aepubliC anama Then spans Caribbean It comes Ecuador realizes truth tro2ics All seems mountainous wastelands stretch Santiago Chile northern Peru mplands coastal Ecuador appear It rainy seasdn The lowlands counrms which passed Ecuador Colonbia Panama endless swamps water islands foliage filled Unlivable places impenetrable It story tropical country natural resources wealth aiting coming hardy superior which exploit The jungle however easily tamed It climbs imposing Andes places depriving their Peruvian aspect From 2oints important Gran Colombia Bolivar dreamed Whose destiny chose become Liberator Colambia Even today dresm Bolivar forgotten although there believe Obviously Panama position accept Gran Colombianismo Venezuela country agriculture means sustaining nature reached developed stage national unity Years civil internal contention three million inhabitants Colombia however devel aspect believe there practical dream greatness In event Color resources million 2eople present intereStin features study thought In cordillera Ludes there found watershed importance south north It Rzo vagdalena Colm branches which divide northern three ranges which before reaching northern coast Colambia Caribbean Co lmbia civilization concentrated western third ticularly valleys gdalena Cauca Eivers C being secondary branch Th eastern thirds epublic consists mostly penetrable jungle either sparsely inhabitated practically devoid Luckily agdalenadCauca Eiver valleys their tributaries mostly course their tough sufficiently allow varied agriculture Colombia other countries Gran Colo velo2in melting distinctive Latin tries south General racial groups classified follows The mulato zambo trietnico three races uroean The mestizo simply 62anish Indian mixture which century before qglish began colonization North America The mulato Spanish Negro mixture mixture began slave trade The zambo mixture conquered dominated races indian Curiously accepted either mestizo mGlato Consequently tended civilized existenc closer jungle group The trietnico simply evolution melting individual Eurooean Indian blood which begin dominate Colabia Then lastly t_hree basic races which noted European indian Although racial evolution proceadeda different regions Coloubia certain basic favored climate factors degree found Indians there heart mountain regions Pruvians areas western Colombia Iulatos iegroes coastal hotter areas country Zsnbos liagdalna The trietnicos mestizos Europeans fertile C upper gdalena valley region where agriculture populated cnters found Sixty Rercent wealth Colmbia represented produced cultural nterprises Of sixty percent forty percent consists cultivated crops wenty percent livestock production Business manufacturing counts percent mining percent The other percent It apparent looking hastily Colombia problems tifundio social difficulty problem which Latin nerican country extent In 6panish monarchy lonarchs Spain lords their subjects wealth their colonial empire conferred grants subjects merited reard subject became master pople attached Naturally master hacienda these broad authority which common Spain glory But In Col latifundio sloly being transformed first glance looks statistics false economic condition ordinary people millibn titles Colmbia However richer zones particularly livestock haciendas located almost impossible ordinary people expand their small minifundio holdings coffee regions country small property holders Of cultivated crops coffee important Crops importance bananas potatoes tobacco cotton It dangerous _other economy second sources basis judgment terything seems indicate however there parallel between coffee tivation Colnbia sugar problem Tucmn Argentina Luis kique 0sorio Geografla EconSmica Social Colobia states Of fincas dedicated coffee production Colombia prcent consisted small acreages thanilO O00 trees which responsible production It vould interesting finas trees 0sorio statement would indicste minifundio problem prevailed Livestock raising small industry Colcmbia there million cattle inhabitant large aveaoe Colomibian hacienda though certainly smaller average Argentine estancia With livestock industry there livestock other cattle Hoses goats sheep mtlss 0sorio manes folloving broad statement Loo livestock ndustry_ ourely social point cttle industry backbone latifundista Upon other types livestock small 2roperty depends Colombia industry almost inexistent There bottling princi pally alcohol distilleries vegetable ilants flour mills textile mills cotton cigar arette factories The mining trolemn industries developed forein capit Coal mining small scale fiIds untouched That Colambia developed nation Great Co Bolivar Colembia overni3ht staying Call inland short there Canal Zone For three I Stayed 0ublic Panama There million epublic The future Panama obviously Canal crossroads world kothing eventful happened clipper Panama clouds ocean goin5 craft Caribbean islands At follove through clouds reful Cienfuegos Cuba Then Jere ointed heroin Now months I journey I which thankful The Argentin measUred anticipation Th I found therewere nmuerous genuine I exieoted simple 9Drase express appreciation Institute IIr Rosrs trustees office Staff Institute During those accounts vities Argentine To those I thorn continued interest relationship sumed Sincerly