Word: venezuelan
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...Venezuelan public filed in politely, took one look, promptly went berserk. Men, women and children, whose kinsmen and ancestors had died in Rotunda, smashed everything smashable, lugged away everything movable, ripped locks out of dungeon doors, wrenched bars from window-slits. Exhausted by an orgy of rage against stone & steel, they filed out into the bright noon of Caracas...
...Venezuela was one of few countries in the world last week with a balanced budget and a treasury surplus. Not a single foreigner owns a Venezuelan government bond and her money is the soundest in the world. Venezuela claims to have the finest highway system in Latin America, built entirely since 1912 and largely by the forced labor of political prisoners. Farmers pay no land taxes at all and may borrow up to 50% of the value of their land from a government farm bank. Caracas has been rebuilt. School attendance has been upped 300%. There is little...
...cattleman, and the son of a cattleman, Juan Vincente Gomez first appeared on the Venezuelan political scene 43 years ago when at the age of 35 he came tearing out of the Andean foothills at the head of a regiment of hard-riding gauchos to support with his neighbor, Cipriano Castro, the government of President Aldueza Palacio in one of the country's innumerable revolutions. They guessed wrong. The successful revolutionists exiled Gomez & Castro. Seven years later another revolution left Cipriano Castro President of Venezuela and General Gomez Vice President and Minister of War. President Castro's vices...
...secret of Venezuela's prosperity. The secret of Dictator Gomez' success is that he did not attempt to interfere with the foreign development of Venezuelan oil fields, so long as his personal "cut" was promptly paid. And he had the patriotism to reinvest all his loot in his own country. Gomez oil royalties went to build Gomez hotels, cotton mills, rubber plantations, model farms. When they failed he sold them to the Government. When they succeeded he kept the change. For years the legend persisted that Dictator Gomez kept a yacht with steam up night & day in case...
...After virtually saying in so many words that oil-rich Venezuelan Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez will continue to sell Italy all the oil she wants, Venezuelan Delegate Cesar Zumeta announced for the record that his country is cooperating with the League. Said Venezuela's oily Cesar: "My country regards it as essential that the League should take steps to settle disputes by other means than force, and it is in this sense that Venezuela is cooperating...