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...Discouraged by $250,000-a-month losses on international routes alone, the Venezuelan government 14 months ago transformed its state-owned LAV airline into VIASA. a new international carrier whose ownership is split 55%-45% between the government and private Venezuelan capital. With a profit of $100,000 so far, VIASA expects to wind up this year firmly in the black. Chiefly responsible is VIASA President Oscar Machado Zuloaga, 42, dynamic, M.I.T.-edu-cated general manager of the Caracas Electrical Co. Machado, who runs the airline on the side for a salary of $8,000 a year, has turned...
...twelve men crouching behind the tank were cut down. A Venezuelan navy chaplain stepped into the street and walked from body to body calling "Hijo, hijo" (Son, son) until he found one badly wounded soldier still alive. He tried to lift the wounded man, and a burst of machine-gun fire spattered at his feet. The wounded man started crawling out of the line of fire, and the rebels finished...
Betancourt went before a National Peasants' Congress to denounce the uprising as a joint operation of the Venezuelan Communist Party and the Castroite Movement of the Revolutionary Left. Was it tolerable, asked Betancourt, "that these parties, with representation in Congress, become implicated in conspiracies that lead to the shedding of Venezuelan blood?" Reinforcing Betancourt's charge was the capture of two Castro-Communist federal Deputies among the Puerto Cabello rebels...
...midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab him and take him to an embassy [where] he will wake up. He has been more cowardly than Frondizi." Then Castro shifted his glare to an old foe, Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, who recently sharply criticized Argentina's military for overthrowing President Arturo Frondizi. Cried Castro: "Who is Señor Betancourt but a murderer of workers and students? And how does he react in the face of the Argentine case? Like a blushing prostitute...
...Joint Center will also award two Venezuelan Doctoral Research Fellowships for the academic year 1962-63. Holders of these grants, open to all graduate students at Harvard and M.I.T., will write a dissertation relating to the development of the Orinoco-Caroni region of Southern Venezuela and its new city, Santo Tome de Guayana. For this purpose they will receive a stipend of $5,500 plus travel and cost of living allowances while residing in Venezuela...