Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Too Poor to Bow. In achieving all of this, De Gaulle has once again confounded his critics. Few statesmen of his time have been so consistently misunderstood. Joseph Stalin, in a moment of exceptional obtuseness, dismissed him as "not complicated." Franklin Roosevelt shared the view of him held by British...
First Exile. The son of a poetry-writing wholesale grocer, Rómulo Betancourt was born February 22, 1908 in the village of Guatire, 25 miles from Caracas. In 1928, during his third year of law school, he took part in a series of demonstrations against Dictator Juan Vicente G...
A 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 Ró...
Despite the oil wells that pump some $800 million a year into Venezuela, the nation that elected Betancourt is in economic trouble. Dictator Pérez Jiménez splurged on grandiose public works schemes that ran the country $1.4 billion into short-term debt. Venezuela has paid one-third...
President Alberto Lleras Camargo called a state of siege and sent 15 armored cars and halftracks to ring the house where ex-Dictator Rojas has been living since he was allowed home from exile two months ago. The troops hauled Rojas out, flew him to the coast, put him aboard...