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When Carlos Andrés Pérez was elected President of Venezuela a year ago this week, his country faced an enviable economic crisis. Rising oil prices threatened to fill the national coffers at more than triple the 1973 rate of $3 billion. "The $10 billion will crush us," warned former Minister of Mines and OPEC Founder Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo. "We have a President with a moun tain of gold to dispense. Everyone will be thinking how to put his hand...
VENEZUELAN PETROLEUM CORP. (CVP) will grow larger in production, shipping and sales because the country's incoming president, Carlos Andres Pérez, has vowed that the government will take over foreign concessions, including all plants and equipment, before agreements expire in 1983. CVP will soon get a lead role in developing huge reserves along the Orinoco River, though it will need technological help from the majors...
...Mexico, former Chilean Ambassador Hugo Vigorena Ramírez, a career diplomat who resigned his post in Mexico City after the coup, claimed to have seen documents outlining what he called the "CIA's war against Allende." The alleged plan, code-named Centaur, was said to involve economic and psychological subversion of the Allende government, including such dirty tricks as introducing counterfeit money and upsetting the rhythm of crops. "The CIA plan prepared for the coup," insisted Vigorena. "It was a systematic campaign of torpedoing the government...
...wing colonels who shared his belief that Argentina was destined to become the Germany of Latin America. In 1943 they staged a coup against the bumbling government of Ramón Castillo (who, ironically, was pro-Nazi himself). Perón backed the naming of General Pedro Ramírez as a figurehead replacement. For himself, he cannily took the directorship of the moribund Department of Labor. Turning it into the government's most active branch, Perón used the department to help win the political support of Argentina's workers, a long-neglected group with great...
...power grew (especially after he engineered the replacement of Ramírez in 1944 with another general, Edelmiro Farrell), Perón's fellow officers cooled toward him. His romance with Maria Eva Duarte, then a third-rate actress of questionable reputation, did not help matters. Perón was a widower when he met Evita in 1943. His first wife, Aurelia Tizón, had died of cancer in 1938. Perón's ungallant epitaph: "Poor thing, she always bored me." Evita never bored him, but her captivation of Perón angered his moralistic, status...