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...little of Betancourt's magnetism. Dour, shrewd and sardonic, with little personal charm, he is more of a backroom politician than a stump-thumping vote getter. For that reason, many Venezuelans had hoped for a continuation of the joint front between A.D. and the Social Christian COPEI party led by Rafael Caldera, 47, an able and personable Caracas lawyer. A.D.'s insistence on Leoni, whom COPEI regards a party hack, diminishes the chance of a united democratic ticket against the left at election time. Even so, Leoni goes into the campaign a clear favorite...
Coolly recognizing his own unpopularity with COPEI and Caldera, Leoni argues that even if they won't help put him in office, they will be bound to support him afterward, and he knows he will need their help and votes if he is to govern effectively. The next regime, says Leoni, should be a coalition even if the party has to go it alone in the election...
Campus Victory. In Venezuela, operating as the Copei party, Christian Democrats won a surprising 16% of the votes in the 1958 presidential elections, now cooperate in Winner Rómulo Betancourt's coalition government, and won last month's hotly contested Student Federation elections at the University of Caracas, whose student leadership was once almost completely Marxist...
RODOLFO JOSE CARDENAS, a leader of Venezuela's Social Christian Copei: The Americans should not think that Latin America is tranquil at the pros pect of Yankee intervention in Cuba, nor should the Russians think that Cuba will be a new Spain, a new Hun gary or a new Korea...
Sitting beside Betancourt, the heads of the other coalition parties, Jóvito Villalba of the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.) and Rafael Caldera of the Social Christian COPEI, reaffirmed the pact with such emphasis that they unconsciously revealed the strains within it. Most of the strains come from the division among the parties of Cabinet posts, state governorships and autonomous state institutes, e.g., social security. Villalba's U.R.D., for example, complained loudly that the A.D. had taken the lion's share and that the U.R.D. deserved the governorship of the federal district, including Caracas, because in the election...