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...Castro. The other was that the U.S. must support Latino efforts to get rid of dictatorship and backwardness throughout the hemisphere. Last week, when it became plain that Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic was back of the recent attempt to assassinate Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, the U.S. took a leading role in calling for a special meeting of the OAS that could lead to punishment of Trujillo by diplomatic or economic sanctions...
...years in power. But perhaps none has ever matched the deed he was accused of last week. The Organization of American States listened to detailed evidence that Trujillo personally plotted last month's nearly successful assassination attempt against Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. The OAS found the case persuasive enough to vote 19 to 0 (with the Dominicans and the Venezuelans abstaining) to judge the evidence...
...small radio transmitter designed to operate a receiver that could detonate dynamite. At this point, the testimony continued, a car drove up to the house, and in strutted Trujillo himself. He asked about Venezuela's political atmosphere and declared that "the enemy must be hit hard." For Trujillo, Betancourt is "the enemy," and Betancourt, in turn, obsessively hates Trujillo. "If we don't do it to him," Trujillo told Sanoja & Co., "he will...
...tried to kill Betancourt? Venezuelan intelligence agents had earlier warned the President that cronies of ousted Dictator Pérez Jiménez had hired four ex-Nazi military engineers in Spain to do the job. Last week, after the blast, Betancourt also implicated an old enemy: Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The bombing was no amateur blast. It was set off by remote control, showing a technical skill with explosives. The plotters also had access to minute information about Betancourt's movements. Laid low by gall bladder trouble for a week before the Armed Forces Day celebration...
Hoping to catch the assassins before they could flee the country, security agents closed down Venezuela's ports. To reassure the nation that he himself was all right, Betancourt showed himself to the press. His face was scorched, his fore head was peeling, his swollen lips were smeared with healing jelly, and his eyes behind his dark-rimmed glasses were puffy. But he waved his bandaged paws cheerfully, and within hours was back at Miraflores Palace...