Word: betancourts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bound for Armed Forces Day ceremonies at Caracas' Military School, Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt rode through the city streets in the presidential limousine chatting to Defense Minister Josue Lopez Henríquez and Mrs. Henriquez, who were beside him. A onetime leftist grown moderate with the years, Betancourt came to power two years ago after the overthrow of the tyrant Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and devoutly hopes to symbolize an end to the traditional violence of oil-rich Venezuela. Chauffeur Azael Valero swung the black presidential car onto the Avenida...
...chance of a warm official welcome elsewhere is slight. All the major Latin American Presidents-Argentina's Frondizi, Mexico's López Mateos, Brazil's Kubitschek, Venezuela's Betancourt, Chile's Alessandri, Colombia's Lleras Camargo-are authentic, elected democrats, friendly to the U.S. and fearful of letting Khrushchev get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. But though Latin America is gifted with many mature and responsible top officials, it also has masses of poor and illiterate people whose grievances can be exploited. From his platform in Cuba, Khrushchev undoubtedly hopes to talk...
...government somehow delayed extending an invitation to Dorticós so long that it was too late for him to accept. Peru shifted Dorticós' arrival to a distant military airfield and barred welcomers. Chile refused to admit him. Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt sent his Foreign Minister to intercept the Cuban President in Buenos Aires and persuade him to stay away because his trip "was not convenient." Dorticós rejoined that he would visit Caracas unless Betancourt publicly barred him. Betancourt then cut Dorticós' scheduled visit from five days...
...another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos was the "betrayer of the Mexican Revolution." Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo, said Mambi, plotted the recent uprising against Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt...
...even Betancourt escaped Cuba's wrath last week. Over the Eastern Radio Network, Castro's leading commentator, José Pardo Llada, called Betanceurt "vacillating," a "democratic anti-imperialist, but not much," "revolutionary, but not much." And that, said Pardo Llada, goes as well for former Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...