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Pudgy, nearsighted General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 43, already one of the world's senior dictators, last week began another five years as President of Venezuela-barring, of course, assassination or a coup by his military juniors. He won the term in a plebiscite that gave voters a choice of him or nothing. So cynically rigged was the election that two hours after the polls closed, Interior Minister Laureano Vallenilla Lanz summoned foreign newsmen to hear the results. Just as a small television receiver in the corner of his office beamed the opening of the first...
...Think," said President Marcos Pérez Jiménez, "of a country convulsed in political battle; of different parties, each trying to get votes by speeches filled with threats and defamation mixed with promises and offers of wellbeing; of streets in cities and towns painted and papered to the saturation point with posters designed to incite; of the populace abandoned to discussion and mental struggles, to screaming and tumult." It made a horrifying picture, but Venezuela's dictator was able to reassure his own people last week that they, at any rate, were in no great danger...
...splashy newspaper advertisements, businessmen prudently lavished praise on Pérez Jiménez' substitute for free elections. The semiofficial press carried supplements as long as twelve pages crammed with nothing but the names of citizens expressing their "adhesion" to the government. The President ordered all businesses in booming Venezuela to pay out their compulsory Christmas bonuses ($60 million this year) before the election not after...
PLATERO AND I, by Juan Ramón Jiménez. One of the best-loved books of the Spanish-speaking world, by the 1956 Nobel Prizewinner-138 prose poems about life and death in the author's home town in Spain. The poems are addressed to the narrator's companion, a donkey, with bittersweet and sensuous grace and delicacy...
Last week Tancredo Martínez Garcia, 41, exiled leader of an anti-Trujillo party, stepped off the elevator on the third floor of a downtown Mexico City office building. From the staircase a voice called "Martínez Garcia." Martnez turned and caught a bullet full in the face. The gunman, thought to be a professional Cuban gun slinger, grabbed Martnez' briefcase, then scuttled from the building undetected. Only in one detail did the shooting vary from the pattern: the bullet ripped through Martnez' cheek and neck, missing a vital spot...