Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evelyn Trujillo, 28, was a stenographer in the Caracas offices of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. After hours she had a more interesting job as an underground courier for Acción Democratica, the big left-of-center party that has been outlawed in Venezuela since the ruling military junta seized power three years...
...each bomb and for each brief battle, the junta blamed Acción Democrática, the party of the elected government which the military men tossed out of power and "dissolved" by decree in November...
...Have No Trouble." A.D. is the junta's triple migrain headache. It has underground cells everywhere, especially among students and oilworkers. The government employs an estimated 10,000 informers and agents, led by the Political and Social Brigade of the Seguridad Nacional, the federal police. Seguridad men are forever raiding the homes of known A.D. members without catching the men they want most, and without stopping clandestine A.D. newspapers...
Phony Election? The guarded answer to this question from most Venezuelans is : political instability. Like all de facto governments in Latin America, the junta dreams of the magic ceremony at the polls which can turn a military dictator into a constitutional President. Last April came the decree promising the election of a constituent assembly within 14 months...
...will there really be elections? Venezuelans answer: yes, there will be, because the junta has committed itself to elections and fears the popular reaction to further delay. However, Pérez Jiménez (the junta's Strong Man) is determined to become President, so the elections will have to be in his favor. And there is always a good chance that an A.D. revolution will beat him to the punch...