Word: rez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guaira with their guns trained on the shore. Army commanders, sickened by the sight of Venezuelan killing Venezuelan, joined the admiral's bid to end the fighting. Desperately, the dictator tried to bargain, but this time no one would listen. The military men stood firm: Pérez...
...four engines of a DC-4 sputtered into action; 15 minutes later the plane lifted west over the downtown section of the city. In a few minutes the plane's winking red light disappeared behind the mountains edging the city, and Pérez Jiménez was gone, kited off after five years of one-man rule to exile in the Dominican Republic...
...Reaction. At news of the dictator's downfall, Caracas became the scene of a strange mixture of wild celebration and savage fighting. Cheering crowds ran through the streets waving banners and screaming "Libertad!" at the top of their lungs. They raided the offices of the pro-Pérez Jiménez newspaper El Heraldo, ransacked the building where the strongman had been declared winner of the plebiscite. They burst into the homes of the strongman and his officials, carried off furniture and set fires. Thirsting for revenge against Pérez Jiménez' Security Police, they...
Fury Spent. From the barracks, the mob turned on foreign embassies in which members of the ousted dictator's administration had sought asylum. They milled outside the Dominican embassy shouting insults at Pérez Jiménez' friend, ousted Argentine Dictator. Juan PeroÓn. They stormed the Nicaraguan embassy, found a Security Police official and shot him. After a day and night of looting, burning and hunting down cops, the mob's blood rage began subsiding. Larrazabal's emergency junta helped satisfy the rioters by abolishing the Security Police, arresting 196 of its chief...
...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...