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...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...
...before going to the Bogotá conference, where his expenses will be paid as chief of the Venezuelan delegation. After the conference, he plans to return to Caracas, hopes to make a living writing for newspapers. He also may become salaried head of the Acción Democrática party...
...Gallegos, founder of socialistic Accion Democrática, spent most of his adult years, more with the pen than the sword, fighting the late (1935) ironhanded Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, tyrant of Venezuela for 27 years...
...campaign had been heated but clean-cut, with a minimum of mudslinging. Loser Caldera accused Acción Democrática of "exclusivism," and charged the government with Communist tendencies. (The Communist candidate ran a poor third.) Of Gallegos, he said: "Nobody doubts the sincerity of Gallegos and nobody believes in the sincerity of Acción Democrática...
...make it easier for the illiterate, the ballot of each party was a different color: white for Acción Democrática,, green for COPEI, brown for the tiny URD, red for the Communists, black for the dissident Miquelena Communists...