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...dictators, the transition was made with the aid of a crutch: a pre-election agreement among the major parties that whichever won would take the others into coalition government. At last week's celebration, televised from Caracas' White Palace, Betancourt, founding father of the Acción Democrática (A.D.), explained that "traditionally in Venezuelan politics the winners on reaching power enjoyed all rights and advantages, while the vanquished were left with only that curious form of political privilege known in Latin America as the 'right to conspire.' We signed a pact by which...
...orderliness, still precarious, is the accomplishment of President Romulo Betancourt, 51, the veteran politician who led Socialist-minded Acción Democrática (A.D.) to victory over a Communist-backed coalition at the polls. Betancourt must still walk a line between the Communists, who wield ominous power with the Caracas street mobs, and the armed forces, intact and distrustful of both A.D. and the Reds...
Communist Mora came home from Havana. Denouncing Figueres as "a servant of Yankee imperialism," Mora praised Castro as a "man of profound culture and conspicuous talent, a true revolutionary." In Venezuela, President Betancourt's Acción Democrática party pointedly issued a statement praising Figueres...
VENEZUELAN politics have been Rómulo Betancourt's life for the past 30 years, and for 21 of them he has been forced to live and work either outside the law or outside Venezuela. In his nine years of legal politicking, he built Acción Democrática, the strongest popular political party Venezuela has ever known, and served as the country's provisional President for two years. In office he worked out the world's first 50-50 government-company split of oil profits and oversaw the first truly free election in Venezuelan history...
...grass-roots political movement, so fervently supported that it survived ten years under a dictator's jack boot, last week smoothly propelled its leader into Venezuela's presidency. The party is the left-leaning Acción Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...