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...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...
...cowboys ride through the tough, chest-high grass of the llanos-Venezuela's central prairie-driving herds of bony cattle before them. In one of the few spots in Venezuela that are radically changed-a cooperative sugar farm on the estate of a Pérez Jiménez crony long since fled-a harvester puts down his machete for a moment to talk about his life in a Venezuela freed of military dictatorship. "Before, I didn't have a chance," he says. "Now I can make a little money...
...July 1945, Betancourt attended a conspiratorial meeting with a group of army officers. "The loudest voice in the military group," Betancourt wrote later, "was that of the then Major Marcos Pérez Jiménez," a short, awkward man with "thick tortoise-shell glasses and a stutter." Despite widespread belief that Medina was on the road to democracy already, Betancourt conspired with Perez Jiménez, the future dictator, to overturn President Medina. By the terms of their compact, Betancourt, head of what was by then a strong, left-oriented political party, became Provisional President...
Imported Reds. The top INRA staffers under Castro and Núñez Jiménez are Attorney Waldo Medina Méndez and Production Chief Oscar Pino Santos. In 1951, the last head count on Communists before the party went underground, both were registered Reds. They have brought in six Chilean Communists to take over key INRA posts...
Slush Funds. Despite its sprawling role in the Cuban economy, INRA operates by Castro whim, slush-fund financing and capricious changes in personnel. Explains INRA's day-to-day boss, Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 36, who got the job because he fought hard in Castro's army, and is the author of a Marxist Geography of Cuba: "Accounting is no problem; everybody here is honest." Without benefit of ledgers, INRA has run through $70 million this year...