Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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H.M.S. Sheffield, flagship of the American Gulf & West Indies Squadron, had just done Britain's honors at the inaugural cf Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos. Last week, she lay at anchor off the Colombian coast, while her handsome senior officer, Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant, went inland to pay courtesy calls in Bogota. An urgent order flashed from Whitehall: proceed without delay to British Honduras. Taking Sir William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment...
This week Betancourt, who had leased a house (for 500 Bs a month), was trying to dig up enough money for a four-week vacation in the U.S. 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...
...soon as he learned that a plot was afoot, Betancourt sent Nicaraguan President Victor Roman y Reyes an urgent telegram: Venezuelan exiles at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, were loading two former U.S. Navy bombers, manned by U.S. crews, for a bombing run over Caracas. He named names, listed airplane numbers...
...biggest proven oil pool on the continent, was thoroughly enjoying the crisis. By taking its one-sixth royalty (70 million barrels) in kind from the big private companies and then reselling most of it back to them at scarcity prices, the government was ringing up a fancy profit. Venezuelan Oil Czar Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, in a deal that would give Argentine State Trader Miguel Miranda a dose of his own medicine, was ready to barter 2 million barrels of Venezuela's high-priced oil for Miranda's expensive beef. Oil-starved Argentines thought the medicine...
...Betancourt, confident of Acción Democrática,'s strength, had taken pains to make the voting fair, and even the opposition was hard put to find grounds for charging fraud. Previous presidents had been chosen by Congress. Gallegos was elected by direct popular ballot, and every Venezuelan over 18 had the right to vote...