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After the Macho. Few presidents have ever had a more difficult act to follow. With his dash and magnetic oratory, Betancourt was a macho, the fiery tough-guy who helped topple Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958, tamed the military, walloped the Communists, and rammed through the initial economic and social reforms that started Venezuela on the road to recovery. More than anything else, Betancourt -the first popularly elected President in Venezuelan history to complete his term-proved that democracy could work in his country...
...wounded editor, with .38-cal. holes in his left side and arm, drove himself to a hospital. U.N. Diplomat Boyd went home to lunch. Even as a lame-duck Deputy he had all sorts of immunity, and in Panama, where the macho approach clicks with voters, he might even have improved his flagging political popularity...
...Mexico's Politica magazine: "The illustrious visitor comes with the personality characteristic of an independent country that has detached herself from the tutelage of the U.S." In Latin America, so long and so completely dependent on the U.S., De Gaulle is getting to be the image of El Macho, the big boy, who has shown everybody how to deal with those Yan kees. De Gaulle recognized Red China despite U.S. disapproval; he more or less rules the Common Market and all but ignores NATO. He is, in fact, a sort of "respectable Castro" to many Latinos. "In Latin America...
...ready to raise our flags," wrote Lima's El Comercio. And in Rio, there were hints that Brazil, too, might recognize Red China. Even Fidel Castro was impressed by El Macho. In a TV interview he said that he "sympathizes" with many things in De Gaulle's policy, also confided that he is studying De Gaulle's memoirs...
...picking on the Roman Catholic Church and chasing teen-age girls that the military became bold enough to throw him out. Brazil, with its mixed Portuguese and African origins, confines its machismo to its frontier lands and southern cattle ranges. But it, too, succumbed to the magnetism of a macho leader when Getúlio Vargas raised a cavalry of southern Gauchos and rode to power in 1930. All over Latin America, the compulsion to follow a macho leader-the caudillo -helps to frustrate political organization. In most elections, nearly every party is merely a collection of its leader...