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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army gave Venezuela its first democratic government; the army took it away. The military leaders in the "cold coup" last week were the same officers who had ousted Dictator-President Isaías Medina Angarita in 1945, opening the way for last year's popular election of President Rómulo Gallegos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENZUELA: The Old Army Game | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...clock one afternoon a group of young Army officers revolted in Caracas' San Carlos barracks. By nine o'clock they had forced their way into the strategic Escuela Militar (military school) and Miraflores Palace, the Presidential residence. They had also captured President Isaías Medina Angarita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Revolt | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...discussed Portugal's granting of Azores facilities to the Allies; revealed that a staggering total of 855 U.S. planes, using 1,000,000 gallons of high octane gasoline, had participated in the blasting of Bremen and Vegesack; announced that Good Neighbor Venezuela's President, General Isaias Medina Angarita, would visit the U.S. before year's end; and finally took to task the five vocal globe-touring Senators whose criticism of the Administration and the British has caused international reverberations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Week, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...Venezuela's second constitutional election in decades, tall, massive General Isaias Medina Angarita, 43, Minister for War, was picked for President by the Venezuelan Congress over Rómulo Gallegos Freire, Minister of Education. With a five-year term in prospect, General Medina, to celebrate, married Señorita Irma Feliola in a modest ceremony at Caracas, five days before his inauguration this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: All Orderly | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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