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Originally imposed as punishment for Trujillo's attempt to assassinate Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. the sanctions were retained after the dictator's own assassination-as a warning to his successors against a new dictatorship. But after months of cliff-hanging crisis, the troubled country seems on the way to its first democratic government in 32 years. Last week a Swiss-style council of state, composed largely of anti-Trujillo business and professional men, was installed to govern the nation until free elections promised for next December. Trujillo's holdover President, Joaquin Balaguer. will...
...Castro's hands by dividing the hemisphere into two debating camps: the seven nations that still maintain contact with Cuba v. the 13 that have broken relations.* As an alternative, Frondizi presented Kennedy with a new version of an idea proposed by Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. Instead of flatly condemning Cuba or Castro by name, each country would be asked to sign a declaration that would set standards-e.g., a freely elected representative government, total respect for human rights -for membership in the community of American nations. Castro's dictatorship could...
...three-day trip would carry risks for the Kennedys. Although the hosts will be old U.S. friends-Governor Luis Munõz Marin of Puerto Rico. Presidents Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia-the latter two nations hold riotous bands of leftist students and workers, with disciplined Communists to lead them. Last week in Caracas (where Vice President Nixon was set upon by a Red-incited mob in 1958) leftist organizers in the high schools burned two cars and a bus, passed out leaflets exhorting the capital to "receive Kennedy as it did Nixon...
When Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt leaned forward to embrace visiting Argentine President Arturo Frondizi in Caracas, one photographer captured the scene from an opportune angle. There, jutting out of Betancourt's pocket, was a pistol butt. The picture raised questions of why a head of state should pack his own pistol. But in Latin America, where the bullet is often more decisive than the ballot, no politician has a better right to fulltime self-protection than Venezuela's embattled chief executive...
...Caracas, Venezuela, the government of liberal President Rómulo Betancourt, whom Castro calls a "lackey of imperialism," intercepted several tons of arms-Czech submachine guns, ammunition, grenades-shipped from Cuba to isolated points along the Venezuelan coast. The Venezuelan government, which is not anxious to arouse its volatile populace, issued an official denial of the reports, but intelligence sources insist that the shipments have been going on since December, and a Venezuelan official lamented last week: "We have a long and open coastline. They can smuggle that stuff in virtually anywhere. We catch what...