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...Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, rector of Simon Bolivar University, has become a vociferous critic of what he terms the petrolear mentality-a kind of psychological rolling in oil. Despite Pérez's reassurances, many small businessmen fear an "inflation of abundance" that has already driven costs up 15%. No American companies have pulled out yet, but since Pérez's intentions toward them are still unclear, they are wary about further investment. Foreign exporters, however, are quite happy at the prospect of a new luxury market-Venezuela has already become one of the world's largest...
...TIME, Feb. 3). In their hunger for honest news, Venezuelans are even snapping up women's magazines and sporting sheets, also long-censored. Conspicuously absent from Caracas' newsstands : El Heraldo, a monopoly evening paper that was manipulated as a government mouthpiece by Minister of the Interior Vallenilla Lanz. Its plant was sacked at the height of the revolution, and in its place, only nine days after the revolution, Caraqueños last week got a new evening paper called El Mundo. Its fighting slogan : "I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful slavery...
...Vallenilla Lanz fled by plane to Paris, Estrada to the Dominican Republic. The country's tension dropped sharply, but Venezuelans openly wondered whether Perez Jimenez could last until his inauguration day, April...
Blundering Theorist. For five years Minister of Interior Vallenilla Lanz, 45, had been Perez Jimenez' chief flatterer, political soothsayer and official philosopher. Suave, well educated (at Paris' Sorbonne) and bookish, Minister Vallenilla mixed ideas from Mussolini, Thorstein Veblen and the U.S. fad of technocracy into a theory justifying dictatorship as the happiest state for Venezuelans. In working out what he called a "New National Ideal," Francophile, anticlerical Vallenilla Lanz led the dictator into many a blunder. One was December's unpalatable yes-or-no plebiscite for a second five-year term. Another was a conflict with...
Tension Relaxed. The pressure to oust Vallenilla and Estrada reached a peak one midnight last week with a resignation of the entire Cabinet. For 14 hours the officers at Miraflores haggled over new ministerial choices. Then Perez Jimenez, worn, jittery and angry, called in reporters. From the head of a huge table, he presented the new Cabinet, including eight high officers and five holdovers. They were, he said glumly, designated "in accord with the feelings of the national armed forces." With the new Cabinet came a new Seguridad chief. Significantly, he was a colonel, which in effect gave the army...