Word: cabello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other executive decisions. When his regime was subjected to terrorist attacks and a rightist assassination plot, the armed forces backed him all the way. The military's finest hour came in the 1962 uprising of a small group of marines and Red-led civilians at the Puerto Cabello naval base. The air force mounted blazing air attacks, and loyal troops crushed the rebels in vicious street fighting that cost 300 casualties...
...somehow escaped from a maximum-security prison in western Venezuela. At large again was Fabricio Ojeda, 34, a former national Deputy sentenced to 18 years as a Communist guerrilla. Of the remaining eight, one was a convicted guerrilla. The other seven were top men in the bloody Puerto Cabello and Carúpano military revolts last year. While this was going on, the F.A.L.N., whose members may number less than 400, burned a Du Pont warehouse and a clothing store, blasted its sixth Creole Petroleum Corp. pipe line in nine months, and murdered still another Caracas policeman-their forty-ninth...
...objective: to undermine the government of President Romulo Betancourt, 54, and bring it down. But Betancourt is not an easy man to topple. Since taking office nearly four years ago, he has survived street riots, assassination attempts and barracks coups-the last a bloody marine corps uprising at Puerto Cabello naval base last summer. In the meantime, he has doggedly pursued a policy of reform. Under Betancourt's agrarian program, more than 3,700,000 acres of land (mostly government property) have been divided among nearly 55,000 families; 5,000 miles of farm-to-market roads have been...
...youth of 16 stepped from his sniper's post and handed his automatic rifle to the soldiers. "Do what you want to me," he said. "I've already killed seven men." It took two more days to chase the last snipers into the hills around Puerto Cabello...
...Castroite Movement of the Revolutionary Left. Was it tolerable, asked Betancourt, "that these parties, with representation in Congress, become implicated in conspiracies that lead to the shedding of Venezuelan blood?" Reinforcing Betancourt's charge was the capture of two Castro-Communist federal Deputies among the Puerto Cabello rebels...