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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...
Mobs were still racing through the streets of Caracas as Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal took the first step toward building a new government for Venezuela. As Pérez Jiménez' DC-4 vanished over the mountains, the slim, unruffled naval chief set up an emergency military junta of four colonels representing the army, air force, national guard and the military schools, put himself at its head...
...civilian members, Top Industrialist Eugenic Mendoza and onetime University Professor Bias Lamberti. To reassure the civilians even further, Larrazabal then named a 13-man Cabinet with only one military member: Air Force Colonel Jesús Maria Castro LeÓn, a leader of the original anti-Pérez Jiménez plot. The civilians and some members of the armed forces were still displeased. Two junta colonels, they protested, were merely holdovers from the Perez Jimenez administration. Larrazabal fired them and put them on the first plane for Curagao...
Future Troubles. By his actions Larrazabal proved a willingness to compromise that stems from a nonpolitical, independent background. The well-mannered scion of an old naval family, he steered clear of the military group that originally brought Pérez Jiménez' junta to power in 1948, held minor posts (naval attache in Washington, head of the Caracas Military Club) under the dictator, was named supreme commander of the navy only a fortnight ago by the hard-pressed strongman...
...difficulties in forming even this first, most temporary kind of government gave a strong hint of greater troubles to come. Since its beginning in 1830, Venezuela has been controlled by a long line of strongmen. To make the possibility of civilian government even more remote, Pérez Jiménez and his police saw to it that threatening political organizations were flattened as soon as they appeared, and their leaders jailed, exiled or gunned down...