Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venezuela. Last week the government announced that it had negotiated a $289 million loan from a consortium of U.S., British and Canadian banks to put part of the burdensome $1.4 billion debt left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez on a businesslike basis...
Colombia. As in the case of Venezuela, Colombia was run heavily into debt by its own ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. By careful penny pinching, the post-revolutionary junta surely and steadily paid off much of the debt...
...classrooms and civic clubs. Their aims: trebling party membership, raising a $150,000 fund to finance party newspapers, and running an intensive "educational, political and ideological campaign among the Venezuelan masses." At a round-table meeting in Caracas, Communist Boss Gustavo Machado sat down cheerily with the leaders of Venezuela's four other parties. His aim: to get an important hand in naming a single unity candidate for President in the November election. Pouring into the political vacuum left by the January overthrow of Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, Venezuela's Communists saw a bright Red future ahead...
...Venezuela came alarmingly close to mob rule last week as ambitious leftist politicians dreamed up an army plot and then loudly put it down with windy proclamations, mass rallies and a general strike. Through three days of crisis, the booming Communist Party played a talented leading role. But conservative military leaders with no plot in mind, kept their tempers down and their tanks in camp and avoided civil...
Complaints on Sunday. Millionaire Lobo has always had his hand in a sugar bowl. He grew up in Cuba (after his banker father was forced out of Venezuela by a revolution), came to the U.S. for a. degree in sugar engineering at Louisiana State University, then went into the family sugar-trading firm of Galban Lobo. Soon Lobo was on his own, eventually started buying mills as the best protection for a speculator. Five months ago he bought his latest and most impressive parcel: a $24.5 million complex of Cuban mills and other assets called the Hershey properties, once held...