Word: venezuelan
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...Thant, journeyed up the Hudson to see New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose wide interests in Venezuela run from the Creole Petroleum Corp. to cattle ranching and supermarkets. At week's end Betancourt flew to Miami, paused for breakfast with A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, then boarded a Venezuelan jetliner bound for more state visiting in Mexico. Then he will go on to the Dominican Republic, where Juan Bosch, an old friend and fellow member of Latin America's non-Communist left, takes over this week as the freely elected President of another land recently freed from dictatorship...
...powerful praise for a onetime revolutionary who wandered the hemisphere in exile for nearly 20 years, who was himself a Communist in his youth, and was ordered out of Puerto Rico in 1955 by U.S. State Department officials trying to get along with a Venezuelan dictator. But the fires of violence have cooled in Betancourt. When he arrived in the U.S. for a five-day state visit, he was acknowledged as a firm friend and ally of the U.S., and as the Kennedy Administration's favorite Latin American...
...from the country's vast reserves. Sold mostly to the U.S., the oil produces more than 90% of Venezuela's annual $2.5 billion export income and-through a 67% tax on oil company profits-accounts for about 60% of the government's annual budget. But Venezuelans worry about their declining market in the U.S. And one of Betancourt's major missions in seven hours of talk with Kennedy was to seek a better deal for Venezuelan...
...eight days the Communists had led the Venezuelan and U.S. navies a merry chase, ducking south to Brazil when everyone thought they were headed north to Cuba, ignoring U.S. Navy orders to turn back when they were spotted by search planes, finally scooting into Brazilian waters when pursuing destroyers drew near. Now, smartly turned out in clean khakis, blue berets and FALN arm bands, the hijackers made a production of surrendering the Anzotegui and its 36-man crew to the Brazilians. Venezuela would get the ship and the crew back, and the hijackers would probably get political asylum, despite Venezuelan...
Rodolfo Jose Cardenas, a young leader of the Venezuelan Christian Democratic Party, last night attributed recent guerrilla disturbances and sabotage in Venezuela to extremists and Castro elements "who do not have popular support." He said that social progress and the land reform program had helped undercut extremists throughout the country...