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Suddenly from the shadows on the pier swarthy individuals climbed the Maracaibo's gangplank. The leader, stepping forward, introduced himself as Capt. Rafael Simon Urbina of Venezuela. Politely he asked Captain Morris to transport his rebel army to the Venezuelan mainland...
General Juan Vicente Gomez, for 20 years dictator of Venezuela, who recently refused to serve as President for another term, but moved by the earnest pleadings of the entire Venezuelan Congress, accepted the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Venezuelan Army, last week found active use for his new title...
...long (20 years) has Juan Vicente Gomez been Dictator-President of Venezuela that when he positively and repeatedly refused to circumvent his country's constitution "just once more" and accept a fourth term (TIME, May 13), the Venezuelan Congress knew not what to do. Visions of impending revolution, rapine and pillage beset the leaderless legislators. Bundling into motor busses, they rode out again last week from Caracas to Maracay, where the old Dictator, now 72, holds court on his model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue...
...fortnight ago the world received calmly the news that General Juan Vicente Gomez had been unanimously re-elected President of Venezuela. To every black-eyed Venezuelan boy it has been one of the fixed and immutable facts of life that ancient, crafty, blue-spectacled Gomez is and ever shall be President of Venezuela, as he has been for 20 years...
Though the meeting closed on a note of good-fellowship, it was rumored that Sir Henri, watchful of Shell,* U. S., Mexican, Colombian and particularly Venezuelan interests, had at one point seemed quite unable to reconcile himself to the A. P. I. program. After the close of the conference he announced, however, that he would give the movement his "100% co-operation." He added that he was at the meeting in an unofficial capacity as observer and A.P.I. guest...