Word: zulia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth that pours up out of the ground here is used to improve almost every state but Zulia (this one); a drive through the oilfields will leave you appalled by the dirt, squalor and misery that is the lot of anyone not lucky enough to be employed by the oil companies...
...most indulged of his male relatives was half-brother Santos Matute Gómez, whom Juan Vicente named president of the state of Zulia in 1918. For a while, the corpulent Santos was content to live on the heavy tribute he exacted from Maracaibo bordellos. Later, in a historic act of direct plunder, he loaded $3,000,000 in gold from the state treasury aboard a German airliner and took off for the Dutch island of Curagao. Juan Vicente clucked at such mischief, and on Santos' return made him president of the state of Carabobo. When Juan Vicente died...