Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 23--Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez fell today and fled into exile. Angry crowds beseiged secret police headquarters and 60 bodies were reported found in the building after a ten-hour fight.
Sapped and rattled by the knowledge that his whole air force and units of the army had rebelled against him in Venezuela's frustrated New Year's revolt, Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last week bargained sullenly for the right to go on occupying the presidency. His top generals...
Blundering Theorist. For five years Minister of Interior Vallenilla Lanz, 45, had been Perez Jimenez' chief flatterer, political soothsayer and official philosopher. Suave, well educated (at Paris' Sorbonne) and bookish, Minister Vallenilla mixed ideas from Mussolini, Thorstein Veblen and the U.S. fad of technocracy into a theory justifying...
Pedro Estrada, 48, had headed the strongman's secret police, the Seguridad National, for five years. Rising from a gumshoe job under an earlier dictator, Estrada perfected the arts of spying, bribing, the third degree and rebellion spotting, and thus made himself an invaluable prop for Perez Jimenez. Caraquefios...
Grabbed Officers. The blowup was triggered on New Year's Eve in Caracas; Brigadier General Hugo Fuentes, the tall, gaunt commander of Venezuela's 20,000-man ground forces, was on his way to the President's reception when secret police arrested him. Grabbed at the same...