Word: angarita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political climate changed in Venezuela and Betancourt returned to organize A.D. Four years later he and his party joined with a group of young army officers to overthrow President Isaias Medina Angarita. In power as provisional President, Betancourt overzealously tried to cram decades of reform and development into two brief years, thereby built a wall of resentment. He presided over the election that put A.D.'s Rómulo Gallegos, a noted novelist, into the presidency in 1948. Reports that A.D. planned to de-emphasize army influence by arming an irregular band of stalwarts helped turn the military against...