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Said Dulles: "I would not say there is any general anti-American sentiment among the people of Venezuela." He ascribed the Caracas riot to the fact that "the police force maintained under Pedro Estrada [police chief under Perez Jimenez] had been virtually liquidated, and the subsitute police did not know how to cope with the mob." This was also the verdict of experts on the scene, appalled by the ease with which a crowd of several hundred rioters tied up the police. Dulles' statement was perfectly accurate; some touchy Venezuelans reacted, however, as though he were lamenting the liquidation...
Adding some of the zing to the stones that bounced off U.S. Vice President Nixon's limousine in Caracas a fortnight ago was Venezuelan anger at the U.S. for sheltering ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez and his tough Security Police boss, Pedro Estrada. Nixon sensibly pointed out that the Venezuelans can have Perez Jimenez back any time they can make out a sound legal case for extraditing him. Last week the U.S. took official action of its own; the Immigration and Naturalization Service instructed its agents to bar Estrada, who left the U.S. a fortnight ago for Europe without...
Technically, both Perez Jimenez and Estrada were admitted to the U.S. as "parolees," required to renew their visas every 30 days. Under the letter of the law there was no way to bar their entry, for neither had ever belonged to an organization unfriendly to the U.S., as specified in the McCarran Act. As political refugees, they had merely requested the same asylum that had been previously granted to other Venezuelan politicians, many of whom are now back in their own country. Perez Jimenez stayed close to his floodlighted Miami Beach hideaway (TIME, April 21), broke his seclusion...
...send Perez Jimenez on his travels will most likely require a formal extradition petition from the Venezuelan government. And despite public anger over the ex-dictator's U.S. refuge, Venezuelan authorities seemed in no hurry to present such a petition...
...main political beneficiaries of the revolt that ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last January are Venezuela's Communists. Operating freely since the revolt, they showed their power by leading the spit-and-stone attacks on Vice President Nixon. Last week, in the embarrassed aftermath of the riot, Venezuela's leftward skid split the ruling five-man junta-but left the Reds uncurbed...