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Your article about my country in the Feb. 28 edition made me even more proud and more cognizant of the fine job that Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez is doing. As a Venezuelan, I would like to express my thanks for your article . . . It is a good way to better relations between the two countries...
...Latin American politics. But though the hard-driving President keeps a firm hand on the wheel, it is Venezuela's fabulous oil wealth, coming in an ever-faster flow, that powers the boom. Under a sense-making profit split with the foreign companies that produce petroleum, the Venezuelan treasury gets about $1,500,000 a day in one form or another. What the money does is downright wondrous...
...colorfully assorted citizens of the U.S. live and make money in Venezuela. In the countryside, boomers who have drifted in from such places as Greenland or Morocco run dredges, build railroads, drive piles (but in the oilfields the oldtime Texas roughnecks have largely been replaced by the Venezuelans they trained). In the cities the American musiús (Venezuelan slang for any foreigner, from monsieur) range from topflight oil-company executives and managers of U.S.-owned factories or assembly plants (cars, tires, chemicals, etc.) through a wide spectrum of salesmen, admen and promoters to some all-purpose operators that...
...Andean Custom. Venezuelan independence dates back to 1821, when one of hemisphere history's towering figures, Simón Bolivar, finally drove the Spanish rulers out of his homeland and went on to free the neighboring nations. Bolivar had no illusions that he had brought U.S.-style democracy to the liberated lands; he died predicting that in the Americas, "Ecuador will be the convent, Colombia the university, Venezuela the barracks." He knew his countrymen well; soldiers have ruled Venezuela through most of its history. Many of them were from the high western Andes, where to celebrate their own character...
...Venezuelan Presidents from 1899 to 1945 came from a section of the Andes around San Cristóbal. Marcos Pérez Jiménez comes from nearby Michelena, a tiny settlement founded by one of his ancestors, where he was born on April 25, 1914. His father, 70 years old at the time, was a small-time cattleman and coffee planter, his mother a schoolteacher from Colombia...