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Southeast across the Caribbean, in oil-rich, poverty-ridden Venezuela, Cuba's Fidel Castro finds plenty of friends among Communists, among dissident far-left extremists of President Romulo Betancourt's Democratic Action (AD) and among leaders of the Republican Democratic Union (URD). Although a member of Betancourt's three-party coalition, URD is opportunistically trying to build up support for future elections by hoisting Castro's banner. URD's most vociferous Castro supporter has been Betancourt's Foreign Minister, Ignacio Luis Arcaya...
Assembled in the clear, democratic air of San Jose, Costa Rica, the hemisphere foreign ministers last week quickly convicted Dominican Repnblic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of collusion in the attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt on June 24. The proof (TIME, July 18), gathered by an Organization of American States investigating committee, might have been vulnerable to questions from a tough defense lawyer, but after 30 years of Trujillo's tyranny, no one was in a mood to demand full evidence...
...year's Cuba-based Dominican invasion as "the result of errors in the first steps of a euphoric and warlike youth" and says: "We wish Fidel happiness." A few days later the charge went: "Raul Castro is right. The OAS serves for nothing." Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt is described as "an employee of the State Department...
...most consistent effort is probably devoted to developing pro-Cuba fronts throughout the hemisphere. Venezuela's Committee for the Defense of the Cuban Revolution, an amalgam of Communists and street brawlers, has grown so powerful that it is causing serious division within the political coalition backing President Romulo Betancourt. A few weeks ago, at the funeral of a local Castro leader killed by police, angry members carried his co Sin, decked with the 26th of July red and black colors, through the streets for four hours. Recently, when anti-Castro Cubans held a memorial service in Caracas Cathedral, committee...
...radical Castro supporters. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin, a stubborn early friend of the Cuban revolution, last week got fed up and demanded recall of the acting Cuban consul, charging that she was encouraging Puerto Rican separatist plotters to visit Havana. Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose Figueres, both left of center, are no longer on speaking terms with Castro...