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Obvious agents and big-name Communists are relatively easy to track. Francisco Juliao, leader of Brazil's troublemaking Peasant Leagues, was in Cuba last month; so was Brazilian Communist Boss Luis Carlos Prestes. When he was ar rested last October, Venezuelan Commu nist Fabricio Ojeda had been logged into Cuba 13 times, so often that he was nicknamed "Lieutenant Hilton." for the suite he occupied in Havana's expropriated Hilton hotel...
...Venezuela, as in most of Latin America, it could happen and it does with great frequency. Nearly half of Venezuelan children are born illegitimate-and that statistic does not count those born out of wedlock but recognized by the father. Only a third of all Venezuela's women are married, and another 20% live as concubines. Divorce, once rare in the predominantly Catholic country, has doubled in two decades. In a pastoral letter last fall, Caracas' José Humberto Cardinal Quintero and all Venezuela's bishops tried to remind Venezuelans of the "dignity and obligation of fatherhood...
...trouble is that Venezuelan men often place machismo, the Latin American he-man obsession, above matrimony. Man's role, they believe, is to beget children, not support them. And their women are none too insistent; many actually believe that marriage "ruins a man." As a result, some 176,000 children were abandoned last year alone, left to become wards of the state or delinquents of the streets. The government's Venezuelan Children's Council spent $10 million last year to care for 96.000 homeless minors, 90% of them illegitimate. With too many mouths to feed, mothers...
...meet the "crisis of fatherhood." Venezuela's Mental Health League offers a six-month course in child care and home life, and the Catholic Church now plans night schools in literacy and parenthood for at least 75,000 young couples. And Venezuelan judges are getting tough with delinquent fathers. Under new laws passed by Congress, fathers guilty of nonsupport face a sobering choice: voluntary support of their offspring, a jail sentence, or a forcible child-care deduction from their weekly wages...
...power the students have in the administration of the university is symptomatic of what Gonzalez regards as the root cause of the terrorism: the high position that the university student occupies in Venezuelan society in general, and in political life in particular...