Word: junta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then from the White House came the first acknowledgement of trouble; a firm order that recognition of the military junta ruling Venezuela must be held up. Meanwhile, U.S. ambassadors in Latin capitals were instructed to ask advice from the governments to which they were accredited on how best to buttress democracy in the hemisphere...
...country where the army would not intervene was Costa Rica, which last week replaced its army with a national police force. With dapper Junta President José Figueres swinging the first sledge, destruction of the battlements of Bellavista Barracks was begun. A National Museum will be built on the site, and the parade grounds will become a lush tropical garden...
...ministers pledged themselves to continue the policies of their predecessors-only more "moderately." Union leaders (almost all now released from jail) and other Acción members declared that they would form an open opposition to the Junta as soon as constitutional guarantees were restored. Said a spokesman for Junta President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud: "Democratic elections will take place. But right now the new government is busy trying ... to put everything on an efficient administrative basis, and above all to establish an atmosphere of tolerance before the elections." As the first step toward those elections, the Junta dissolved the national...
...midnight, standing under a portrait of Simon Bolivar, Lieut. Colonel Delgado Chalbaud was made provisional president at the head of a junta consisting of himself, Pérez Jiménez and Assistant Chief of Staff Luis Llovera Paez Secoc...
...sanctuary. Betancourt went into hiding. But the vast majority of the party's politicians and labor leaders were clapped into jail. Union funds were seized by the army. Newspapers were ordered to hew strictly to the army's line, and an almost continuous radio barrage of pro-junta propaganda helped to sell the coup to the country...