Word: carabobo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club. The avenue's two 100-ft. towers, six reflecting pools, 84 giant urns, 50-ft. obelisk and dozens of statues...
...historic act of direct plunder, he loaded $3,000,000 in gold from the state treasury aboard a German airliner and took off for the Dutch island of Curagao. Juan Vicente clucked at such mischief, and on Santos' return made him president of the state of Carabobo. When Juan Vicente died in 1935, Santos flew off to Curacao again, this time with $45 million in boodle. Then he dropped from the public...