Word: betancourts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look in the trash can near the proofreaders' rest room. In both places were notes from the publicity-grabbing Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro-Castro terrorist group that is trying to make things difficult for Venezuela's middle-reading President Rómulo Betancourt. The FALN's message: one of the government's ships is missing...
...revolutionists--branded as pirates by the Betancourt government--had defied warning smoke rockets from a U.S. search plane yesterday and kept going...
Humphrey, like Keating, singled out Venezuela as one of the Latin-American countries most gravely menaced by Communist subversion. The Senate majority whip said Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, due here Tuesday on a state visit, should be given assurances that the U.S. would not tolerate any sort of attack on his country...
...when Larrazábal's Air France 707 arrived, an uncontrollable mob of thousands overflowed the airport chanting "Viva Larrazábal" and "Down with Betancourt." In the crowd was TIME Correspondent Moisés Garcia, who was invited to ride with Larrazábal on the triumphant trip into Caracas. In the crush, Larrazábal's aides pulled Garcia in through a rear window while two Venezuelan National Guardsmen yanked on his legs to keep him out. Garcia was an eyewitness to the enthusiasm...
Discouraging Return. Some Latin American nations are bucking this trend. Two years ago, U.S. business was leary of unsettled Venezuela; now, thanks to President Rómulo Betancourt's success at holding price increases to an average 2% last year, new U.S. money is beginning to move into Venezuela again. Much the same is true of Colombia and Peru...