Word: betancourts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened, Venezuela was the President's next stopping point. He had scheduled the visit as a gesture of reciprocal friendship with Venezuela's staunchly pro-American President Romulo Betancourt. But Venezuela is where Vice President Richard Nixon was attacked by mobs in 1958, and in the days before Kennedy's trip, Caracas leftists again erupted in violent protest. Confronted by the prospect of trouble, both the U.S. and Venezuelan governments took extreme security precautions...
...three-day trip would carry risks for the Kennedys. Although the hosts will be old U.S. friends-Governor Luis Munõz Marin of Puerto Rico. Presidents Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia-the latter two nations hold riotous bands of leftist students and workers, with disciplined Communists to lead them. Last week in Caracas (where Vice President Nixon was set upon by a Red-incited mob in 1958) leftist organizers in the high schools burned two cars and a bus, passed out leaflets exhorting the capital to "receive Kennedy as it did Nixon...
...Venezuela, for example, land-reform is being successfully carried on by President Betancourt on a different basis than the one used by Castro. In this manner, Betancourt is showing Latin America that there is an effective alternative to communist revolution...
Both Kennedy and Plank agreed that Betancourt is one of the most heartening figures in Latin America today. In running an anti-communist government that is eliminating corruption, "shouldering its responsibility with regard to the labor movement," and finishing payment of a two billion dollar debt, Betancourt is creating an image of democracy that will help to improve United States' relations with Latin America, Kennedy said...
...land and industrial empire would be turned over to the nation. In return, the U.S. would seek the lifting of economic sanctions imposed by the Organization of American States after the late dictator was caught in a nearly successful 1960 plot to kill Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt...