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Venezuelan democracy", was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964. He survived an assassination attempt ordered by Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic.
Rómulo Betancourt was one of Venezuela's most important political figures and led a tumultuous and highly controversial career in Latin American politics. Periods of exile brought Betancourt into contact with various
Latin American countries as well as the United States, securing hislegacy as one of the few real international leaders to emerge in twentieth-century Latin America.
As a young man he founded and led a number of radical student groups. In the early 1930s while in Costa Rica he assisted with organizing the country's communist party. In 1935, he founded the Organización Venezolana, which later became the party Acción Democrática (AD).
He became president in 1945 by a military coup, and accomplished an impressive agenda. His accomplishments included the declaration of universal suffrageSuffrage is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. In that context it is also called political franchise''. Universal suffrage is the extension of voting privileges to all adults, without distinction to race, sex, belief or social status., the institution of social reforms, and securing half of the profits generated by oil companies for Venezuela.
In 1948, Marcos Pérez JiménezMarcos Perez Jimenez was a Venezuelan politician. He was born on April 25, 1914 in Michelena, Tachira State. He studied military. In 1945, he participated in a coup and became Minister of Defence. He was president of Venezuela from 1952 till 1958. He died overthrew the elected president
Rómulo GallegosRomulo Gallegos Freire ( 2 November 1884 7 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of some ten months during 1948, he served as his country's president. Romulo Gallegos was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to Romulo Gallegos Osio and, and Betancourt was forced into exile in New York, wherehe was determined to expose to the world the political problems and dictatorships that troubled Venezuela.
He returned a decade later, after Pérez Jiménez was ousted, and was elected president. Having inherited an empty treasury and enormous foreign debts from the spendthrift Pérez, Betancourt nevertheless managed to return the state to fiscal solvency despite the rock-bottom petroleum prices throughout his presidency.
In 1960 two important institutions were created by Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, Betancourt's minister of energy: the Venezuelan Petroleum Corporation (Corporación Venezolana de Petróleos--CVP), conceived to oversee the national petroleum industry, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPECThe Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) comprises countries that have organized for the purpose of negotiating with oil companies on matters of petroleum production, prices, and future concession rights. Founded September 14, 1960 at), the international oil cartel that Venezuela established in partnership with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran.