Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than a month had passed since a military junta seized the government in Venezuela, and the U.S. had not recognized the new regime in Caracas. President Truman, who had come to know and like ousted President Romulo Gallegos on their two-day trip across the U.S. to Bolivar, Mo. last July, was personally responsible for the decision...
...Campero quit in a cabinet squabble over recognition of the Venezuelan junta. A leading exponent of the "automatic recognition" policy at last April's Bogota conference, Paz Campero had made his country the first to recognize the new military regime in Peru, had been all for giving Venezuela the same pat on the back. But the Bolivian government, in company with the U.S. and many a hemispheric neighbor, had decided to go slow in making friends with juntas...
Then from the White House came the first acknowledgement of trouble; a firm order that recognition of the military junta ruling Venezuela must be held up. Meanwhile, U.S. ambassadors in Latin capitals were instructed to ask advice from the governments to which they were accredited on how best to buttress democracy in the hemisphere...
Almost before catching his breath in Havana, Venezuela's exiled President Romulo Gallegos had begun dishing out the blame for his downfall (TIME, Dec. 13). His most sensational charge involved "the notorious presence" of a foreign military attache at a Caracas barracks during the army uprising...
...flew off to exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign embassy...