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Eduardo Fernandez, general secretary of Venezuela's Christian Democratic Party (COPEI), referred to President John F. Kennedy's call for Americans to work for social, political and economic reforms...
...voted, most of the issues had given way to a personality contest in an American-style election campaign that officially lasted almost two years and cost the country a minimum of $30 million −nearly $7 a vote. Perez and his closest rival, Lorenzo Fernandez of the ruling COPEI (Social Christian party), who won about 37% of the vote, both relied heavily on U.S. consulting firms to build their images...
...unlike Betancourt, Leoni and other A.D. leaders were in no hurry to bring Caldera into a new coalition. Jealous of COPEI's rapid growth, A.D. leaders offered Caldera's party only a few governorships and some minor Cabinet posts...
...negotiations dragged on, Betancourt himself argued for a bigger role for COPEI. He arrived at a party meeting with a tape recorder. "I know what I'm going to say here now will prove historic," he said, and then proceeded to read the riot act. "My government would not have survived without COPEI's support. Yours will not either. So get that support." Then he left, promising to play back the tape at a future date...
...Last Try. The gesture was of no avail. Last week President-elect Leoni, a dour, unimaginative party politician, rejected Caldera's final offer for coalition. With that, Caldera announced that COPEI would now go into opposition, would pursue an independent course of "autonomy of action." Leoni scrambled among the other parties, tried to scrape up a tenuous four-party coalition that would give A.D. a majority in Congress. But few Venezuelans were willing to bet that any new coalition would last much beyond inauguration...