Word: rez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Revolutionary. Nowhere are the challenges, the perils and the possibilities greater than in Venezuela, where President Rómulo Betancourt, 51, a classic example of the legendary conspirator-gone-respectable, inherited the mess left when Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez ran out two years ago. Next week Betancourt ends his first year in office-the longest term of constitutional government in the dictator-ridden country's history. Perhaps his biggest success is simply surviving that long...
...done much more than survive. He has braked the Communist influence that erupted when Pérez Jiménez fell. He has kept a coalition of democratic parties working in harness. He has begun a sorely needed land reform, built scores of schools and hundreds of miles of highway, brought in a World Bank mission to plan the next four years of economic and social reforms...
...Andes; cowboys ride through the tough, chest-high grass of the llanos-Venezuela's central prairie-driving herds of bony cattle before them. In one of the few spots in Venezuela that are radically changed-a cooperative sugar farm on the estate of a Pérez Jiménez crony long since fled-a harvester puts down his machete for a moment to talk about his life in a Venezuela freed of military dictatorship. "Before, I didn't have a chance," he says. "Now I can make a little money...
...July 1945, Betancourt attended a conspiratorial meeting with a group of army officers. "The loudest voice in the military group," Betancourt wrote later, "was that of the then Major Marcos Pérez Jiménez," a short, awkward man with "thick tortoise-shell glasses and a stutter." Despite widespread belief that Medina was on the road to democracy already, Betancourt conspired with Perez Jiménez, the future dictator, to overturn President Medina. By the terms of their compact, Betancourt, head of what was by then a strong, left-oriented political party, became Provisional President...