Word: betancourts
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...leftist maverick who bossed the military junta that ruled for ten months after the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Openly supported by the Communists, the darkly handsome Larrazábal ran a close race with President Rómulo Betancourt in the elections that followed, and then was sent into semi-exile as Venezuela's Ambassador to Chile. Last week Larrazábal returned to Caracas for "a personal visit," and his supporters, many of them far leftists, gave him the full, fanatic Latin American welcome...
Plans for Reform. He is Juan Bosch. 53, a novelist, journalist and longstanding political friend of such charter members of the Latin American "democratic left'' as Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt. Like Munoz Marin, Bosch has great plans for reforming and developing his island country. Like Betancourt, he spent much of his life in exile plotting revolution-and then modified his views in favor of constitutional government...
Throughout Venezuela, young and old are learning to read, write and do simple mathematics as the result of an intensive education drive by President Romulo Betancourt. When Betancourt took office almost four years ago, Venezuela was emerging from a decade of do-nothing military dictatorship; of the country's 6,500,000 people, 56% were illiterate...
...their learning to oldsters; in the cities, high school students go into the barrios, and next month 2,000 soldiers armed with textbooks will join the campaign in the slums. Venezuela's illiteracy has been cut in half. It is now at 26%, and next year, the Betancourt government promises, it will drop...
Venezuela's tough-minded and hard-pressed President Romulo Betancourt, a liberal who is a dedicated enemy of Castro's, had already started preparing his country for a state of mobilization on the ground that Cuba "stands as a constant threat to our security." He now sent battle dressed marines to stand vigil over the oilfields and put one-half of Venezuela under virtual martial...