Word: betancourts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Associate Professor Martin B. Travis of Stanford University. "Castro would surely be killed and become a martyr," they said. "Our action would be compared to that of the U.S.S.R. in Hungary. Democratic Presidents in Latin America like [Adolfo] López Mateos of Mexico or Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela would be forced to adopt an extreme position in order to prevent revolution in their own countries...
...Moscoso's maiden U.N. speech, President Kennedy picked him as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. He will be the first Puerto Rican to represent the U.S. as an ambassador abroad. Venezuela's President is Reformer Rómulo Betancourt, an old friend of Moscoso's. In Puerto Rico, Governor Muñoz Marin called the appointment "a very good thing for Washington, a very good thing for Caracas, but a bad thing for San Juan...
Concern over Venezuela is great among U.S. investors. Though President Romulo Betancourt is bitterly anti-Castro and a man the State Department is anxious to have on the U.S.'s side, U.S. businessmen look askance at some of his reform measures. They fear that government-run companies in the oil, construction and petrochemical industries will eventually take over their private competitors. Some U.S. manufacturers doing business in Venezuela have been pressured into setting up branch plants there, under government threats that their import permits might be revoked. The effect is to scare off other potential investors and to accelerate...
...Another evidence of Brazil's new stance was its reception for Adolf A. Berle, visiting chief of President Kennedy's Latin American task force. Berle, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, is respected in Latin America, got a warm welcome in Venezuela from his old friend President Romulo Betancourt, and another from Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo. But after Berle and Quadros talked for two hours, about everything including Castro, a U.S. official would only say, "Well, they didn't throw bricks at one another." Real Fright. Obviously, any step against Castro that required overt support...
...these words, Haya identified himself with such leaders of Latin America's anti-Communist left as Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Just as opposed to dictatorship of the left as of the right, Haya's fellow leftists have reached power proclaiming the compatibility of representative democracy and basic social reform. Having returned to Lima, Haya hopes to win power himself in Peru's presidential elections next year...