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...short, optimistic months of Venezuela's Action Democrdtica government, bright young (31) Leonardo Ruiz Pineda was a cabinet minister. In the same period, tough Pedro Estrada was a small-time detective, spying for various Caribbean dictators. The overthrow of the legally elected A.D. regime by a military junta in November 1948 changed the course of both men's lives...
...Ruiz Pineda escaped from a junta prison after five months. Finding himself the ranking leader of the outlawed party, he went underground. Cool-headed Ruiz Pineda seemed to thrive on his dangerous life, moving around Caracas at night, seldom sleeping two days in the same house, turning out clandestine newspapers, meeting his lieutenants and bragging of his sixth sense for danger...
...year ago, the junta fired its secret police chief and put ex-Gumshoe Pedro Estrada in the job. His orders: get Ruiz Pineda in 30 days. Estrada tracked the resistance boss one night to a Caracas apartment-house district, and surrounded the building with 80 cops. But while Estrada watched, Ruiz Pineda shot his way to freedom. In the months since then, Estrada has been searching Caracas, house by house, for clues leading to the slippery man he knew was never more than a few blocks or a few miles away...
...Real Revolution? For the A.D. view, I talked freely for an hour and a half with the Secretary General of Acción Democrática, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, former cabinet minister. The cops have been looking for him for 27 months. Ruiz Pineda changes his residence every three days and goes out only at night, but he keeps in touch with the whole organization, sends and receives some 20 letters a day and frequently addresses meetings. Recently 80 policemen surrounded the house where he was staying, but he and a few friends shot their...
...Ruiz Pineda contended that A.D. has learned much and will do better next time it is in power. When will the next time be? And will it be evolution or revolution? "The government will decide," answered Ruiz Pineda. "If they continue to deny us liberties, if they continue to hold all the power, then it must be revolution...