Word: betancourts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fiercer Attack. One of the most conspicuous members of Muñoz' Democratic Left-and a man on whom the U.S. counts heavily-is Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. A onetime radical revolutionary who has moderated his views with time, Betancourt was elected three years ago to govern a country rich in oil but economically ravaged by dictatorship. He has struggled to restore financial stability and provide jobs for his people, who were largely illiterate (illiteracy has dropped from 57% to 27% in three years) and mostly poor. No leader is under fiercer attack...
...posting snipers on roofs of the city's housing projects to fire into the streets. In the countryside, bands of Red guerrillas, trained and indoctrinated in Fidel Castro's Cuba, have been roaming the jungle hills, trying to enlist the peasants and skirmishing with Betancourt's pursuing National Guard...
Mush Without Bread. Traveling to the Guárico state capital of San Juan de los Morros, Betancourt angrily charged Fidel Castro with aggression, and confidently warned him not to expect any help from Venezuela's peasants: "The pressure for the government to Cubanize itself has taken the path of violence, terrorism, dynamiting and armed action. Those guerrillas have failed because guerrillas without peasants are like bread mush without bread. The peasants of Venezuela defend this regime because they helped organize it with their votes. We cannot become simple pawns in a world conspiracy moved about by Nikita Khrushchev...
...midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab him and take him to an embassy [where] he will wake up. He has been more cowardly than Frondizi." Then Castro shifted his glare to an old foe, Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, who recently sharply criticized Argentina's military for overthrowing President Arturo Frondizi. Cried Castro: "Who is Señor Betancourt but a murderer of workers and students? And how does he react in the face of the Argentine case? Like a blushing prostitute...
...Torre, is running strong for next June's presidential elections, the Peruvian army promised to block his presidency. "Haya," said a general, "will not set foot in the presidential palace." One Latin American who acted to curb the infection was Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, who was himself once stripped of executive power by Venezuela's military. Betancourt refused to recognize the new Argentine government, recalled his diplomats from Buenos Aires, and sent a cable to 15 hemisphere presidents, including Kennedy. Declared Betancourt: "Legitimate government has been overthrown. This violent method of effecting changes...