Word: curagao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader of the original anti-Pérez Jiménez plot. The civilians and some members of the armed forces were still displeased. Two junta colonels, they protested, were merely holdovers from the Perez Jimenez administration. Larrazabal fired them and put them on the first plane for Curagao...
...Last week, faced with rising Dutch feeling, the U.S. State Department decided to please a NATO ally at the risk of angering U.S. airlines. It granted the Dutch two new routes: KLM will now be allowed to land at Houston on its Amsterdam-Montreal-Mexico City route, fly from Curagao to New York (either directly or through Miami...
...while, the corpulent Santos was content to live on the heavy tribute he exacted from Maracaibo bordellos. Later, in a historic act of direct plunder, he loaded $3,000,000 in gold from the state treasury aboard a German airliner and took off for the Dutch island of Curagao. Juan Vicente clucked at such mischief, and on Santos' return made him president of the state of Carabobo. When Juan Vicente died in 1935, Santos flew off to Curacao again, this time with $45 million in boodle. Then he dropped from the public...