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PLATERO AND I (159 pp.)-Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by William and Mary Roberts-Duschnes...
PLATERO AND I (218 pp.)-Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by Eloïse Roach-University of Texas...
...fall of dictatorships all over South America has left Venezuela's General Marcos Perez Jiménez a lonely military strongman. Gone are Peru's General Manuel Odría, Argentina's General Juan Perón, Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. For a bird-of-a-feather to help him celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day, President Pérez Jiménez could find only President Alfredo Stroessner of tiny, backward Paraguay. Flags of the two countries flew side by side all over Caracas last week as General Stroessner and a party...
Fatherland Week, as the holiday is called, was the kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club...
Argentina, once the domain of Pérez Jiménez' friend Juan Perón, last week stepped up its drive to get Perón kicked out of his Venezuelan exile-and out of the hemisphere. The Argentine ambassador presented carefully documented proof that Perón was violating the rules of asylum, conducting an espionage and sabotage network from his Caracas apartment. Pérez Jiménez angrily rejected the Argentine protest, abruptly recalled his ambassador from Buenos Aires, and declared the Argentine ambassador persona non grata. Argentina responded by suspending diplomatic relations with Venezuela...