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...each bomb and for each brief battle, the junta blamed Acción Democrática, the party of the elected government which the military men tossed out of power and "dissolved" by decree in November...
...Real Revolution? For the A.D. view, I talked freely for an hour and a half with the Secretary General of Acción Democrática, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, former cabinet minister. The cops have been looking for him for 27 months. Ruiz Pineda changes his residence every three days and goes out only at night, but he keeps in touch with the whole organization, sends and receives some 20 letters a day and frequently addresses meetings. Recently 80 policemen surrounded the house where he was staying, but he and a few friends shot their...
...rules Venezuela declared martial law in the oilfields, then moved to dissolve the striking unions on the ground that they had "altered their specific objectives and converted themselves into an instrument of political action." Later, the government came right out and charged Communists and the outlawed Acción Democrática party with fomenting the strike...
...labor leadership in the Venezuelan oilfields since the junta overthrew President Romulo Gallegos in 1948 has been Communist. One of the first things the junta did on coming to power was to jail, exile or drive underground all labor chieftains belonging to Gallegos' New-Dealing Acción Democrática party. That opened the door for the Communists...
...almost 20 years, the tiny republic voted for a new President and Congress. Though final results might not be known for a month, short, fat Major Oscar Osorio, 39, was almost certain to win the presidency. Osorio's middle-of-the-road Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Democrática (PRUD) was likely to gain most of the congressional seats...