Word: llovera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caracas' well-guarded Miraflores Palace, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, No. 1 man in Venezuela's military junta, found a fresh copy of Resistencia, the mimeographed bi-weekly of the outlawed Action Democrdtica Party. Resistencia was also on the desks of Marcos Perez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, the other members of the junta's triumvirate...
Struggle for Power. Delgado Chalbaud, according to the scuttlebutt, has been contesting with Pérez Jiménez for army support. Llovera Páez, No. 3 man, has been an uncertain balance of power-but not a power in himself. In the scramble for sides, several hundred officers have been quietly jailed. The strategy of A.D. leaders is to keep building up strength until army strife gives them a wide-open chance to take over the government...
...leading political prisoner has been scholarly Valmore Rodriguez, president of the Senate during the Gallegos regime. The junta admits that some 200 such prisoners (the underground says 2,000) are still in jail. It does not know what to do with them. Moaned Llovera Páez: "If we exile them, they discredit us abroad. If we free them in the country, they lead the opposition against us. If we keep them in jail everybody criticizes...
...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...