Word: guaira
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Airport to see Calhoun off on a business trip to Caracas. Just before take-off time, he pulled a wad of newspaper clippings from his pocket. "Show these to the boys in the office when you get to Caracas," he said. That evening, when the plane landed at La Guaira airport, a delegation of brown-faced, unsmiling Venezuelan army officers met Calhoun. The reason: since December, exiled Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos had been an intermittent guest in the cozy, twelve-room villa of Father-in-law Stevens on Miami's Star Island...
...between Panama City and Colombia stretched 186 miles of impassable jungle and swampland, with head-hunting Indians lurking behind each tree. Belief was that the highway would have to break off at Panama; that cars would have to be ferried over 1,000 miles around the coast to La Guaira, Venezuela...