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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...
...when Larrazábal's Air France 707 arrived, an uncontrollable mob of thousands overflowed the airport chanting "Viva Larrazábal" and "Down with Betancourt." In the crowd was TIME Correspondent Moisés Garcia, who was invited to ride with Larrazábal on the triumphant trip into Caracas. In the crush, Larrazábal's aides pulled Garcia in through a rear window while two Venezuelan National Guardsmen yanked on his legs to keep him out. Garcia was an eyewitness to the enthusiasm...
Discouraging Return. Some Latin American nations are bucking this trend. Two years ago, U.S. business was leary of unsettled Venezuela; now, thanks to President Rómulo Betancourt's success at holding price increases to an average 2% last year, new U.S. money is beginning to move into Venezuela again. Much the same is true of Colombia and Peru...
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...
...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...