Word: jes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he had not found one scrap of evidence to link his eminent employer to the unsolved Galindez-Murphy case (TIME, April 2, 1956 et seq.). He airily dismissed as a "canard" the strong circumstantial case that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single theory: that Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez was kidnaped on his way home from giving a Columbia University lecture on March 12, 1956, drugged, and flown to a small airport in the Dominican Republic by American Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 22, who was later silenced by murder in Trujilloland...
Honor to Civilians. From the start, the necessary removal of Pérez Jiménez' supporters in the armed forces was done with tact and no ugly rolling of heads. Gratefully, new Defense Minister Jesús Maria Castro León called to pledge the armed forces' allegiance. Next evening Journalist Fabricio Ojeda, 29, founder of the civilian "patriotic junta." which welded Venezuelans of every political hue into an anti-Pérez Jiménez striking force, added his promise of loyalty...
...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, were merely holdovers from the Perez Jimenez administration. Larrazabal fired them and put them...
...though he had to read of his success to believe it, the strongman ordered every newspaper in Venezuela to print frontpage editorials denouncing the uprising. Quick to refuse was the Rev. Jesús Hernández Chapellin, editor of the Roman Catholic daily La Religión. Pérez Jiménez jailed the priest, kept him jailed even after the government canceled its order to the press. At week's end, shorn of the belief that the armed forces were 100% behind him, and battling the Catholic Church, the pudgy dictator wore an unsettled look strangely...
...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 time was Colonel Jesús Maria Castro León, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. An agent of the internal spy net, the Seguridad Nacional, posing as an air force officer, had tabbed Colonel Castro León as leader of the plotting airmen, and General Fuentes head army plotter. The arrests...