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General Juan Vicente Gomez, for 20 years dictator of Venezuela, who recently refused to serve as President for another term, but moved by the earnest pleadings of the entire Venezuelan Congress, accepted the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Venezuelan Army, last week found active use for his new title...
Foolhardy General José Rafael Gabaldon raised the flag of revolt against blue-spectacled General Gomez in the distant provinces of Lara, Trujillo, and Portuguesa with an army variously estimated at 50 and 500 men. Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...
...long (20 years) has Juan Vicente Gomez been Dictator-President of Venezuela that when he positively and repeatedly refused to circumvent his country's constitution "just once more" and accept a fourth term (TIME, May 13), the Venezuelan Congress knew not what to do. Visions of impending revolution, rapine and pillage beset the leaderless legislators. Bundling into motor busses, they rode out again last week from Caracas to Maracay, where the old Dictator, now 72, holds court on his model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue...
...fortnight ago the world received calmly the news that General Juan Vicente Gomez had been unanimously re-elected President of Venezuela. To every black-eyed Venezuelan boy it has been one of the fixed and immutable facts of life that ancient, crafty, blue-spectacled Gomez is and ever shall be President of Venezuela, as he has been for 20 years...
...last week from his stock farm at Maracay, President Gomez unexpectedly wired his Congress: "I cannot accept the high charge...