Word: betancourts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the news, Venezuela exploded with joy. Scores of letters, telegrams and donations poured into the hospital. President Rómulo Betancourt phoned twice in a day; the hospital picked up the medical tab and the government set up a fund to cover the boys' education. The family can well use it. Inés María and the babies' father, Efrén Lubín Prieto, 38, live in a 20-ft.-sq. mud hut in a dismal slum on the shore of Lake Maracaibo...
...kidnaping-like the theft of touring Louvre treasures early this year -was one more brazen attempt by the F.A.L.N. to shame the pro-West government of President Rómulo Betancourt. In this it succeeded; it also succeeded in exposing the woefully inefficient and almost comic condition of the Caracas police force...
Last month Betancourt finally set up a joint police command, responsible directly to him and with complete authority over all Caracas police. Some forces are being equipped with fast new prowl cars and station wagons; and for the first time, vehicles will be dispatched through a central radio command...
...himself and his wife a $225,000 mansion in Miami Beach and settled down for a nice palmy retirement. A year later, the unexpected occurred: the new Venezuelan government wanted him back to stand trial on charges of embezzling $13.5 million. The country's new President, Romulo Betancourt, a onetime Marxist who has since moved to the center and who had lived many years in exile, knew the benefits of benevolent asylum; but he was also convinced that if Venezuela was to move toward democracy, it had to break the cycle of graft-and-go leadership...
Venezuelan agents promptly loaded him aboard a chartered DC-6B, flew him home to a maximum-security cell in San Juan de los Morros prison, 50 miles southwest of Caracas. Though P.J. kept telling anyone who would listen that he would be killed when he got home, President Betancourt promised that he would be treated "just like any common criminal, and will be given the same rights...