Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cells & Pipelines. With the help of these adherents and with reviving elements of the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers, A.D. set up an underground. It now has cells throughout the country and free-flowing pipelines into the army as well as into the government. Even the junta's most secret acts are reported in one of the underground's ten "newspapers." Resistencia is the largest. Though possession of a copy is cause for immediate arrest, Resistencia's hand-to-hand circulation has doubled to 8,000 in two months...
...trip to Caracas. Just before take-off time, he pulled a wad of newspaper clippings from his pocket. "Show these to the boys in the office when you get to Caracas," he said. That evening, when the plane landed at La Guaira airport, a delegation of brown-faced, unsmiling Venezuelan army officers met Calhoun. The reason: since December, exiled Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos had been an intermittent guest in the cozy, twelve-room villa of Father-in-law Stevens on Miami's Star Island...
...last week recognized the military governments of Venezuela and El Salvador. Before doing so, the State Department had gone about as far as it could to discourage power-hungry army men elsewhere in Latin America. At the order of President Truman (TIME, Jan. 10), it had put off the Venezuelan recognition for two months. But when it asked other Latin American governments for advice, their almost unanimous answer was, in effect: "Face the unpleasant facts...
...recognition seemed likely to solve few of the Venezuelan junta's problems. Just a week after the junta used tear gas to break up a student demonstration at Caracas' Central University, it countered a sudden oil workers' strike in the state of Zulia by jailing union leaders and threatening strikers with loss of social-security benefits. Foreign observers wondered if the walkout was a dress rehearsal for more serious trouble...
...last week, Bolivian Foreign Minister Xavier Paz Campero quit in a cabinet squabble over recognition of the Venezuelan junta. A leading exponent of the "automatic recognition" policy at last April's Bogota conference, Paz Campero had made his country the first to recognize the new military regime in Peru, had been all for giving Venezuela the same pat on the back. But the Bolivian government, in company with the U.S. and many a hemispheric neighbor, had decided to go slow in making friends with juntas...