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...Pickled Ear. Back in Venezuela he became a public battler against Gómez' strongman heir, General Eleazar López Contreras, toured the nation with thundering demands that López make way for a democratic election. Enraged, López Contreras in 1937 drove Betancourt and his followers underground, launched a hunt for him. Once government officials took an ear bitten from the head of a hapless gardener by a cop during a street fight, pickled it and displayed it as "Betancourt's ear"-as though they were capturing him piece by piece. Betancourt's daughter Virginia recalls that...
...243pez allowed him to return to witness the elaborately rigged election of another general, Isaias Medina Angarita. President Medina, determined to act democratic, surprisingly allowed Betancourt to launch Actión Democrâtica and develop it over the next four years into a major political force...
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