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There were microphones, movie cameras and diplomats. And there were speeches by Venezuela's visiting President Romulo Gallegos and Foreign Minister Andres Blanco. It seemed more like an ambassador's tea than an art exhibition. But the paintings-hung by the Library of Congress as a gesture of inter-American good, will-spoke anything but the language of diplomacy. The work of a brooding, hollow-cheeked man named Héctor Poleo, they were fierce and fearful as a prophecy of doom...
...Foreign Minister, Poet Blanco defends the intellectual in politics. "There is no separation between literature and the people," says he. "It is necessary that intellectuals serve." He intends to set an example...
...prison, Blanco poured out verse. His jailers gave him no paper because they knew the power of his pen; he scratched his verses on prison walls, memorized what he had written. His poems were carried outside the walls to become part of the people's lore...
Both in & out of jail, Blanco has endeared himself to his people with his songs and coplas-short four-line verses on popular themes. A Caraqueño recalls: "Late one night about five years ago, we were sitting in a beer garden, drinking and listening to an urchin singing. A man wandered in from the street and sat down with us. For the urchin's song, he improvised a copla, and the boy tried to make one up, too. Then the man improvised verse after verse for an hour-about each of us, about the beer garden, about...
Political Talk. Since Gómez died and left Venezuela free to fight its way toward democracy, Blanco has been a sort of moderator and conciliator among political factions. He is without a politician's ruthlessness, and although he has been president of the now-dominant Acción Democrática party, he has little sympathy for the business of machine politics. Last year, as president of the Constituent Assembly where Venezuela's new democratic constitution was written, his calm reasonableness headed off many a crisis...