Word: bernardez
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...collateral for government loans to the banks. Charged with having violated an order not to leave Venezuela, Castro says he departed because the Caldera government's suspension of civil liberties denies him a fair hearing. He claims to be the victim of a vendetta by Investment Minister Carlos Bernardez, an old political enemy with whom he vied for control of Banco de Venezuela, one of the country's oldest banks, which is now in government hands. -Gustavo Gomez Lopez, Tinoco's successor as president of Banco Latino. He insists he is innocent and claims he is being targeted by Caldera...
...court, behind the duchess, sat her codefendants: a lawyer, a printshop owner, a printer and Don Bernardo Bernardez, an elderly monarchist leader and onetime banker. Having been fired from his post at the Banco Iberico, Don Bernardo deemed himself a ruined man. But as a Spanish caballero, there was one thing more he could do for Luisa Maria. He could, in spite of his wife and ten children, take the rap for the duchess. Don Bernardo stoutly denied that she had any connection with his political activities. Said he: "If the facts are criminal, I myself am the only criminal...
...front of the unpretentious apartment house at No. 10 Calle de la Vega the night watchman banged his stick on the sidewalk, clanked a ring of keys, then unlocked the door for a party of four plainclothesmen. The visitors walked up the stairs to the apartment of Don Bernardo Bernardez, 63, respected executive of the Banco Iberico and well-known elder of Spain's monarchist movement...
...Banker Bernardez had been the head of the Avanzadilla brain trust, and a shrewd political adviser to Leader Luisa Maria, 34, the handsome, impetuous Duchess of Valencia. Cautious and levelheaded, the old man kept the organization running in spite of its hotheads. "I have ten children of my own," he would say, his blue eyes twinkling, "so I can easily manage a hundred more...
...Patrician Rebel. When the duchess heard of Bernardez' arrest, she still had time to flee. Instead, she chose to stay. When she was nine and a convent student, Luisa Maria had upset a plate of bean soup in protest against the quality of convent food. Reprimanded, she upset the inkwell on the mother superior's desk. Last week, still a rebel, the duchess made the rounds of Madrid's foreign embassies and newsmen, hoping that publicity would help her arrested friends...
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