Word: betancourts
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...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...
...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...
...hand to attend a fellow exile's funeral in Mexico City two years later, Betancourt was warned by police to stay indoors because of a plot to assassinate him en route to the cemetery...
...Cruising through Caracas in June 1960, Betancourt barely escaped his old enemy Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic; Trujillo's agents parked a car loaded with high explosives along the route, triggered it by a microwave transmitter. The blast killed Betancourt's aide-de-camp, his chauffeur and a bystander and severely burned Betancourt himself-to the extent that his hands, 16 months later, are still horribly scarred and tender...
...public functions, Betancourt mingles closely with his people, sitting at a table surrounded by the throng, pushing his way through densely packed crowds. He has the standard complement of aides and plainclothesmen spotted around to keep an eye out for enemies. The pistol is a little personal troubleshooter...