Word: ez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guarded Miraflores Palace, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, No. 1 man in Venezuela's military junta, found a fresh copy of Resistencia, the mimeographed bi-weekly of the outlawed Action Democrdtica Party. Resistencia was also on the desks of Marcos Perez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, the other members of the junta's triumvirate...
Struggle for Power. Delgado Chalbaud, according to the scuttlebutt, has been contesting with Pérez Jiménez for army support. Llovera Páez, No. 3 man, has been an uncertain balance of power-but not a power in himself. In the scramble for sides, several hundred officers have been quietly jailed. The strategy of A.D. leaders is to keep building up strength until army strife gives them a wide-open chance to take over the government...
...leading political prisoner has been scholarly Valmore Rodriguez, president of the Senate during the Gallegos regime. The junta admits that some 200 such prisoners (the underground says 2,000) are still in jail. It does not know what to do with them. Moaned Llovera Páez: "If we exile them, they discredit us abroad. If we free them in the country, they lead the opposition against us. If we keep them in jail everybody criticizes...
...situation was grave, that it could be mended only by a military government on the Argentine model. Zervino had told him that a revolutionary movement was under way and advised him to get on the bandwagon. Zervino had also said that the revolt might be headed by Ibañez or by General Jorge Berguno (now in Buenos Aires, a fugitive from Chilean justice...
...wind up the affair, Prosecutor Nogues recommended five years' imprisonment for Vergara, three years' banishment for Ibañez and fines of 50,000 pesos ($1,175) each. For the officers he asked lighter terms; for the noncoms, only two months' military arrest. At week's end President González, who knows a danger signal when he sees one, was pushing through Congress a 20% pay raise for the armed forces...