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...incredible prosperity into the restive heart of Spanish America. The denizens of the "Latin Republics" can see what the 20th Century has to offer and, daily, they want it more. Some, like Romulo Betancourt and Jose Figueres, will practice patience and subtle revolution; others like Che Guevara and Gustavo Machado will ask speed and violence; all seek greater happiness for a greater number...
...Enemy. One of the inner-circle leaders of the F.A.L.N. is Gus tavo Machado, 65, chief of the Venezuelan Communist Party and federal Deputy from Caracas. The rebellious son of wealthy parents, Machado spent two student years in jail for opposing Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. He went into exile, first in the U.S., then in France, where he became a convinced and highly disciplined Communist. Returning to Latin America in the 1920s, Machado helped found the Communist Party in Cuba, carried cash and medicines to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, worked with the Venezuelan Commu nist Party from exile...
These days Machado directs the party from a comfortable, middle-class apartment in Caracas and an office in the National Congress Building. His hair turned a distinguished white, the Communist boss carries (as do many Venezuelan politicos) a .38 pistol in his pocket. Of his family, he says that three of his brothers and two sisters are "members of the oligarchy-but good people in spite of that." He is "proud" of the work of the F.A.L.N., and explains its attacks on U.S. holdings by saying, "The enemy of the Venezuelan liberation movement is the U.S. monopolists...
...organized in 1932 to oppose the Machado regime, and reformed in 1952 to aid in the overthrow of Batista. The hotbed of Directorate activity was the University of Havana, and students there engaged in terrorism and acts of sabotage. Many students, however, left the University to join the 26th of July Movement operating in the hills of Oriente Province...
...from coast to coast during the past month, last week wound up in California's fabled San Joaquin Valley. The visitors ogled Fred DeBenedetti's mechanical tree shaker that tumbled walnuts to the ground, stared while other mechanized arms swept up the piles of nuts. When William Machado, a bean farmer, said that he had suffered no loss at all in harvesting his crop, the Russians-who could only judge by the chaotic conditions back home-simply did not believe...