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...government somehow delayed extending an invitation to Dorticós so long that it was too late for him to accept. Peru shifted Dorticós' arrival to a distant military airfield and barred welcomers. Chile refused to admit him. Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt sent his Foreign Minister to intercept the Cuban President in Buenos Aires and persuade him to stay away because his trip "was not convenient." Dorticós rejoined that he would visit Caracas unless Betancourt publicly barred him. Betancourt then cut Dorticós' scheduled visit from five days...
...Revolutionary. Nowhere are the challenges, the perils and the possibilities greater than in Venezuela, where President Rómulo Betancourt, 51, a classic example of the legendary conspirator-gone-respectable, inherited the mess left when Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez ran out two years ago. Next week Betancourt ends his first year in office-the longest term of constitutional government in the dictator-ridden country's history. Perhaps his biggest success is simply surviving that long...
...same year, in the poverty-ridden town of Guatire, 40 miles from Caracas, a child was born to a wholesale grocer's accountant and amateur poet named Luis Betancourt.* Pleased that his second child was a boy, the proud poet accurately sized his son up when Rómulo was only four months...
...Hero to Worship. At Caracas' principal high school. Betancourt studied under a young psychology teacher named Rómulo Gallegos. A brilliant writer-he later turned out the classic novel of Venezuelan backlands life, Doña Bárbara-and an inspiring teacher, Gallegos became the idol of Betancourt, as the prototype of a proud man willing to risk criticizing Dictator...
...rate of 100,000 bbl. a day. In the rush that followed, oil companies paid millions of dollars for choice concessions. Providing services and equipment to the oil industry made a thin upper crust gorgeously rich, but scarcely benefited such middle-class families as the Betancourts. Rómulo went to work as a bill collector for a wholesale tobacco firm, played sand-lot soccer (right forward), entered the law school of Caracas' Central University...