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...Trujillo embarked on grandiose projects of no merit, lost $35 million on an international fair that flopped in 1956, drained away another $50 million for arms in the space of two years. Trujillo compounded his growing troubles by a foolish and abortive plot to assassinate Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt in Caracas last June. As a result, Trujillo was ostracized by all the other nations of the hemisphere...
Campus Victory. In Venezuela, operating as the Copei party, Christian Democrats won a surprising 16% of the votes in the 1958 presidential elections, now cooperate in Winner Rómulo Betancourt's coalition government, and won last month's hotly contested Student Federation elections at the University of Caracas, whose student leadership was once almost completely Marxist...
Some of the best U.S. friends in Latin America were made nervous and cautious. One indication of hidden danger was in Venezuela, where President RÓmulo Betancourt, champion of the anti-Castro left, felt forced to cancel a session of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America, scheduled to meet at the volatile University of Caracas. And to many of the credulous among the Latin American peasantry, as among Cubans themselves, the bearded Fidel Castro now seemed more of a hero, able to stand up to the Yanquis...
...Report and Associate Professor Martin B. Travis of Stanford University. "Castro would surely be killed and become a martyr," they said. "Our action would be compared to that of the U.S.S.R. in Hungary. Democratic Presidents in Latin America like [Adolfo] López Mateos of Mexico or Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela would be forced to adopt an extreme position in order to prevent revolution in their own countries...
...Moscoso's maiden U.N. speech, President Kennedy picked him as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. He will be the first Puerto Rican to represent the U.S. as an ambassador abroad. Venezuela's President is Reformer Rómulo Betancourt, an old friend of Moscoso's. In Puerto Rico, Governor Muñoz Marin called the appointment "a very good thing for Washington, a very good thing for Caracas, but a bad thing for San Juan...