Elsa Beatrix News Today

Paul was born of American parents in a hospital operated by an American doctor in the town of La Cumbre, Colombia while his Father was working as an engineer at his family’s sugar plantation Manuelita, near Palmira. His father rode the 30-mile trip on horseback from Palmira to the hospital, guided by one of the plantation engineers, to be at his wife’s side at Paul’s birth, but unfortunately did not make it in time.