Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While many Caracas publishers went along with the dictatorship, Capriles stretched his dangerous liberty to the point of mimeographing wire stories critical of the government and passing them to restive army officers. On New Year's Day, after the abortive air-force revolt at Maracay, submachine-gun-toting security police bundled Capriles off to jail, where he was later joined by his brother, Marco, Ultimas Noticias' circulation manager. Carlos, a third brother, fled to Colombia, while five top Capriles editors went into hiding or exile. By last week all were back at work in Caracas...
Before it could even begin to function, the all-military junta brought down a storm of protest from civilian rebels fearful of a new military dictatorship. Larrazabal named two civilian members, Top Industrialist Eugenic Mendoza and onetime University Professor Bias Lamberti. To reassure the civilians even further, Larrazabal then named a 13-man Cabinet with only one military member: Air Force Colonel Jesús Maria Castro LeÓn, a leader of the original anti-Pérez Jiménez plot. The civilians and some members of the armed forces were still displeased. Two junta colonels, they protested...
...popular favorite was a strange one. An aging survivor of the reactionary 1931-44 Jorge Ubico dictatorship, General Ydigoras, 62, is a hardworking, fluent spellbinder, backed by feudal landlords. Though anticlerical in the past, he casually promised to have a famed Guatemalan priest canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. M.D.N. charged that he also dropped leaflets by airplane on election day announcing that Cruz Salazar had just withdrawn from the race...
...Promising to "give this country peace if I have to shoot every other man in Nicaragua to do it," Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza took command of the Nicaraguan National Guard when the U.S. Marines pulled out in 1933, parlayed his talents into dictatorship, a string of coffee plantations and cattle ranches into a $60 million fortune, was killed, at 60, by an assassin in September...
...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 dictatorship as the happiest state for Venezuelans. In working out what he called a "New National Ideal," Francophile, anticlerical Vallenilla Lanz led the dictator into many a blunder. One was December's unpalatable yes-or-no plebiscite for a second five-year term. Another was a conflict with the Roman...