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Comfortably settled in a $400,000 Miami Beach mansion, Venezuela's ex-Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 48, for a long time lived high off the fat of his former land after his ouster in 1958. Alas, for two months now, the suety onetime strongman has been sweating it out in a Florida jail, while his lawyers try to arrange bail on extradition charges. On a low-fat prison diet, Jimenez has lost 16 lbs. and is down to 166 lbs. "If you ever find yourself gaining weight after you get out," said a sympathetic jailer...
...final plea for help went out from the invasion force's Colonel José Pérez San Román. It was denied. In a burst of futile anger, San Román cried back into his radio "And you, sir, are a son of a bitch...
...elections in Venezuela are almost a year away, but the campaign drums are already beating wildly for one unannounced candidate: Vice Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, 50, a leftist maverick who bossed the military junta that ruled for ten months after the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Openly supported by the Communists, the darkly handsome Larrazábal ran a close race with President Rómulo Betancourt in the elections that followed, and then was sent into semi-exile as Venezuela's Ambassador to Chile. Last week Larrazábal returned...
...exile, Pérez Jiménez lived in style. He bought a $400,000 Miami Beach mansion with swimming pool, cabanas and royal palms. He did a bit of loafing, broke out his bow and arrow for archery practice, gave a few parties, junketed off to Manhattan. Eventually, Venezuela asked the U.S. to arrest and extradite him on charges of complicity in murder-and embezzlement, based on evidence found in the suitcase. He got out on bail while his lawyers fought his extradition all the way up to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Last week, when that court turned...
...still has the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal his case to, but is not enjoying his new American domicile. Languishing in an 8-ft. by 12-ft. cell with only an iron cot and no chair, Pérez Jiménez complained: "This is in violation of the traditional humanitarian right of political asylum. I'm treated worse than a common criminal-even the lowest of criminals are freed under bond in this country." He might find it worse at home, although Latin American governments have a tradition of not being too hard on their predecessors in office...