Word: chapellin
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...though he had to read of his success to believe it, the strongman ordered every newspaper in Venezuela to print frontpage editorials denouncing the uprising. Quick to refuse was the Rev. Jesús Hernández Chapellin, editor of the Roman Catholic daily La Religión. Pérez Jiménez jailed the priest, kept him jailed even after the government canceled its order to the press. At week's end, shorn of the belief that the armed forces were 100% behind him, and battling the Catholic Church, the pudgy dictator wore an unsettled look strangely...
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