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...Manhattan, 128 white-uniformed Venezuelan naval cadets marched from the transport Cabana to the statue of Bolívar in Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...
Last week, Venezuelans got the sequel to the best robber mystery they had known in many a day. In Barranquilla in neighboring Colombia, police began to watch one Julio Casa Rivas. Reason: he was buying flashy cars and diamonds, and otherwise tossing around Venezuelan bolivars. Rivas was arrested, told all: with a cashier accomplice he had switched moneybags just before the San Tome-bound plane took off from Caracus...
Peons on Tractors. The cowboy was not the only Venezuelan countryman to get Government help. Determined to share the country's million-barrel-a-day oil wealth as widely as possible, President Betancourt pressed schemes for gradual land redistribution, a $6,000,000 irrigation program, and 148 new rural schools. To shore up food production and boost rural living standards (most Venezuelan peons get about 1,200 calories a day), he pinned his hopes on mechanization. The U.S. State Department backed this program by putting Venezuela high on the Latin delivery list, right after Mexico and Brazil. This week...
Died. Dr. Alfredo Machado-Hernandez, 58, Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States, onetime Venezuelan Minister of Finance and his country's representative at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco; after a long illness; in Washington...
...musty chambers of Lima's venerable Gran Hotel Bolívar, over bourbon-and-sodas, representatives of the world's major oil companies also studied the supposedly secret Curtice plan. They grumbled at proposed royalties that would resemble the prevailing Venezuelan scale of 16⅔%. Such percentages, they said, were fair enough in proven fields like Venezuela, but high for Peru, where exploration costs are probably the highest in the world and where the trans-Andean pipeline to bring oil out to the west coast might cost...