Word: acci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acción Democrática believes that the junta will be overthrown by violence-though it does not urge that course on its members. Undergrounders expect that the revolution will be started in the army, which has been divided by rival factions since the day it booted out Gallegos. At first the schism was confined to garrison commanders who refused to cooperate with the junta. Lately, word has gone around that the division exists within the junta itself...
Clerks and businessmen applauded the new cabinet and swapped the latest rumors (Leader X of the deposed Acción Democrática party had been caught with a million bolivars sewn into the lining of his coat; Leader Y had absconded with two million bolivars). Caraqueños generally were agreed that it included some capable...
...ministers pledged themselves to continue the policies of their predecessors-only more "moderately." Union leaders (almost all now released from jail) and other Acción members declared that they would form an open opposition to the Junta as soon as constitutional guarantees were restored. Said a spokesman for Junta President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud: "Democratic elections will take place. But right now the new government is busy trying ... to put everything on an efficient administrative basis, and above all to establish an atmosphere of tolerance before the elections." As the first step toward those elections, the Junta dissolved the national...
From a Sickbed. The officers waited, then early in November called again. This time they meant business. Gallegos and Rómulo Betancourt, leader of Acción Democrádtica, were willing to bargain but they refused to accept dictation. Behind them, they hinted, were nearly half a million militant party members...
Gallegos was held under protective custody in the Escuela Militar; other prominent Acción Democratistas fled to foreign embassies for sanctuary. Betancourt went into hiding. But the vast majority of the party's politicians and labor leaders were clapped into jail. Union funds were seized by the army. Newspapers were ordered to hew strictly to the army's line, and an almost continuous radio barrage of pro-junta propaganda helped to sell the coup to the country...