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...unarmed schoolboys hurled stones at police lorries and civilian freedom fighters stood up to machine-gun fire, Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Péerez Jiménez toppled with a crash that rattled the Americas' few remaining strongmen. Struggling to avoid a similar end at the hands of mountain guerrillas who have been battling for his overthrow, Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista relaxed his grip on civil rights, prepared to set up what he hoped would be a well-controlled election. And Guatemala, following its second try at presidential elections in three months, hovered at the brink of violence...
From the beginning of his strongman career in 1948, Perez Jiménez believed the reverse. "My country," he liked to say, "is not ready for democracy." He took the profits of Venezuela's oil-fed prosperity, lavished them on jobmaking monuments, public buildings, superhighways, military officers' clubs. Although he left the country's illiterate peasants and day laborers in hovels, he perched a luxury hotel, a glittering restaurant and an eye-popping skating rink on top of a mountain, connected them to Caracas and the sea with a soaring system of cable cars, then started boring...
...last few strongmen (see box). Argentina, struggling to clean up the mess left by Juan PerÓn, could face its first free post-PerÓn general elections this month without the nagging threat of interference from the ousted dictator operating in plush exile in Perez Jiménez' Caracas. Colombia, lately rid of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, could get on with its rebuilding, proud of having set a good example and with fresh assurance that democracy holds the brightest promise. And the U.S., deeply involved in developing Venezuela's fabulous oil reserves, would be free...
...Venezuelan Dictator-President Marcos Pérez Jiménez scrambled desperately to snatch back some of his waning authority and prestige. Last week he broke up a new plot masterminded by his longtime chief of staff. General Rómulo Fernández. 45, and hustled the general off to exile. At the same time, he partially reversed the humiliating Cabinet shuffle forced on him when his fortunes were at low ebb a fortnight ago (TIME...
...dictator had little time to savor this success. Day after day, knotsof rioting students raced through downtown Caracas, burning cars and chanting "Down with Pérez Jiménez !" Petitions circulated, signed by nearly 1,000 top-rank businessmen, professional men and artists, demanding an end to the police state. Against the demonstrators, the cops used the strongman's best brand of brutal force. But despite hundreds of arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports...