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...attractive Evelyn Trujillo, 28, was a stenographer in the Caracas offices of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. After hours she had a more interesting job as an underground courier for Acción Democratica, the big left-of-center party that has been outlawed in Venezuela since the ruling military junta seized power three years...
Warned by telephone, Evelyn fled to the house of Acción Democratica friends. After voluble discussions of her plight, they decided to move her to another house. Her new hosts were dismayingly hospitable. They gave parties and introduced the fugitive to their guests. Finally the underground supplied the information Evelyn needed: the Seguridad thought that she had information to spill, and would arrest her soon. After another long discussion, it was decided that she should seek asylum in the Chilean embassy...
...each bomb and for each brief battle, the junta blamed Acción Democrática, the party of the elected government which the military men tossed out of power and "dissolved" by decree in November...
...Real Revolution? For the A.D. view, I talked freely for an hour and a half with the Secretary General of Acción Democrática, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, former cabinet minister. The cops have been looking for him for 27 months. Ruiz Pineda changes his residence every three days and goes out only at night, but he keeps in touch with the whole organization, sends and receives some 20 letters a day and frequently addresses meetings. Recently 80 policemen surrounded the house where he was staying, but he and a few friends shot their...
...only real labor leadership in the Venezuelan oilfields since the junta overthrew President Romulo Gallegos in 1948 has been Communist. One of the first things the junta did on coming to power was to jail, exile or drive underground all labor chieftains belonging to Gallegos' New-Dealing Acción Democrática party. That opened the door for the Communists...