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...first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself. He put it on a paying basis, and at the same time demonstrated the raising of tick-resistant Santa Gertrudis cattle crossbred with African and local Venezuelan breeds. To spread the word, he set up two other experimental farms...
Other Rockefeller and IBEC Venezuelan ventures: a thriving milk business, a hotel, a string of shopping centers, a mushrooming chain of supermarkets that have, by competition, forced Venezuelan food prices down to reasonable levels...
...suffered one noble flop. Trying to put needed nitrogen into Venezuelan diets, he conceived the idea of a fishing industry. He bought trawlers, icing machines, hired Florida fishing experts, went to work. But Venezuela's distribution system cannot handle fish at any distance from the country's ports, and few Venezuelan housewives have any way to keep frozen fish frozen. But by and large, Rockefeller has served successfully for Venezuelans as a one-man development bank...
...business. Newspapers trumpet wild charges, e.g., that the U.S. military advisory mission is plotting a coup. U.S. housewives on shopping trips have been heckled with shouts of "Yankee go home," and on Caracas' new Armed Forces Avenue, crude painted signs urge "death to the imperialistic Yankees." Venezuelan schoolchildren only seven and eight years old came out of one grammar school chanting memorized anti-U.S. slogans. In good-humored rebuttal, U.S. oilmen, who have kept Venezuelan oil flowing through dictatorship and revolution, are forming the SPCAID-"Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to American Imperialist Dogs...
Smiles & Hopes. For the record, non-Communist Venezuelan leaders are making mild protestations. Rafael Caldera, speaking for his Christian Socialist Copei, Democratic Action (A.D.) and the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.), politely turned down the idea of a Popular Front because of the Communist Party's "concept of state order and its international obligations." Last week A.D. Boss Rómulo Betancourt said that his party "does not want Communist help," and Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the five-man military junta, declared that he was a Roman Catholic and that "Catholicism and Communism are antagonists...