Word: maiquetia
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What do you say?" As it turned out, the U.S. newsmen ac companying Nixon faced dangers of their own when the Caracas mobs started to swarm the next day. At the Maiquetia Airport, the newsmen got their share of the mob's spittle from 200 shoving high school students waiting for Nixon. Knowing that more trouble was coming, Wilson and six other newsmen scorned the closed cars assigned them, chose instead to ride with the photographers in an open-topped truck that directly preceded Nixon...
Great Highway. More significantly for Venezuela's economy, Pérez Jiménez snipped a silk ribbon to open the spectacular new motor speedway running from mountain-girdled Caracas to the sea. The journey to the capital from its seaport, La Guaira, and the neighboring airport Maiquetia, has traditionally been a fatiguing, sometimes hair-raising ride over an insane 18½-mile highway with 311 curves. The $60 million, four-lane autopista is Venezuela's most daring piece of engineering. It sweeps up to the capital in 10½ miles, tunneling mountains and leaping deep chasms...
Venezuelan security police intercepted two suspected Russian secret agents at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport a fortnight ago, and later deported them. Last week, after a bitter exchange of protests, Venezuela announced that it had broken off relations with Russia and recalled its chargé d'affairs from Moscow. In Latin America, only Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico still maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...