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Acción Democrática believes that the junta will be overthrown by violence-though it does not urge that course on its members. Undergrounders expect that the revolution will be started in the army, which has been divided by rival factions since the day it booted out Gallegos. At first the schism was confined to garrison commanders who refused to cooperate with the junta. Lately, word has gone around that the division exists within the junta itself...
Clerks and businessmen applauded the new cabinet and swapped the latest rumors (Leader X of the deposed Acción Democrática party had been caught with a million bolivars sewn into the lining of his coat; Leader Y had absconded with two million bolivars). Caraqueños generally were agreed that it included some capable...
...died and left Venezuela free to fight its way toward democracy, Blanco has been a sort of moderator and conciliator among political factions. He is without a politician's ruthlessness, and although he has been president of the now-dominant Acción Democrática party, he has little sympathy for the business of machine politics. Last year, as president of the Constituent Assembly where Venezuela's new democratic constitution was written, his calm reasonableness headed off many a crisis...
...before going to the Bogotá conference, where his expenses will be paid as chief of the Venezuelan delegation. After the conference, he plans to return to Caracas, hopes to make a living writing for newspapers. He also may become salaried head of the Acción Democrática party...
...Gallegos, founder of socialistic Accion Democrática, spent most of his adult years, more with the pen than the sword, fighting the late (1935) ironhanded Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, tyrant of Venezuela for 27 years...