Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaping lustily to life after nearly a decade of censorship and browbeating, Venezuela's newspapers have more than doubled circulation since the fall of Dictator Pérez Jiménez (TIME, Feb. 3). In their hunger for honest news, Venezuelans are even snapping up women's magazines and sporting sheets, also long-censored. Conspicuously absent from Caracas' newsstands : El Heraldo, a monopoly evening paper that was manipulated as a government mouthpiece by Minister of the Interior Vallenilla Lanz. Its plant was sacked at the height of the revolution, and in its place, only nine days after...
...Mundo's maxim is more than Monday-morning bravado. The new daily was propelled into orbit by slender, bushy-haired Miguel Angel Capriles, 42, Venezuela's biggest publisher, whose morning papers. La Esfera (The Sphere) and tabloid Ultimas Noticias (Latest News), earned a hazardous reputation as two of the few sheets that proved most staunch in defiance of Pérez Jiménez. (The only daily that outdid Capriles' papers was Roman Catholic La Religión, which refused to run a single line on the dictator's "me-or-nobody" election victory.) Publisher Capriles...
Whipping into a 14-hours-a-day routine at the Ultimas Noticias building, Publisher Capriles celebrated Venezuela's freedom with a flurry of now-it-can-be-told newspaper stories. At the same time, Miguel Capriles and most other publishers realize that they can best shore up a shaky democracy by avoiding excess in their new freedom. Wryly, Capriles admits: "For the time being we are exercising a sort of self-censorship...
Treading with care. Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal. 46, eased Venezuela through its first week of freedom after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. The handsome navy chief, setting the pace for his five-man junta, spoke in tones of moderation, by week's end appeared to have won the support of nearly every sector of Venezuelan life...
...honor to Ojeda. Larrazabal made that visit the occasion for his first policy speech. He promised fulfillment of lawful commitments, protection of foreign investments and guaranteed political freedom. The statement on investments pleased the oilmen and steelmen who hold most of the U.S.'s $3 billion investment in Venezuela. In the aftermath of the revolt, some resentment had flared against the U.S. for having maintained comfortable relations with the dictator; with this feeling was mingled a reaction against recent cutbacks in U.S. imports of Venezuelan...