Word: democr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some airborne rebels came down in neighboring Colombia and others surrendered, Venezuelans learned what the shooting was about. A faction of hot-blooded Army impatients (who had helped put Betancourt and his Action Democrática Party in power only a year ago) wanted a reshuffle. Their chief objection: the leftist tone of the moderate Betancourt Government...
Venezuela was a fair example. There Acción Democrática, now in power, had outorganized the Communists politically and in the trade unions. Soviet representatives, keenly interested in Venezuela's million-barrel daily oil production, had used their influence over the Embassy luncheon table to induce the leaders of the three feeble Communist groups to unite. But even when merged, these drew only 51,000 votes in last month's election...
Acción Democrática. Although young, Army officers had apparently inspired most of the fighting, the men behind the revolution were chubby, liberal Rómulo Betancourt, new Provisional President, and shy, famed novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire. Their Democratic Action Party was the political instrument...