El Trienio Adeco
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In exile Rómulo Betancourt had flirted with communism but he came to believe that he was not going to get very far along that path. President Isaías Medina Angarita fostered the further professionaliz
Members of the Revolutionary Government Junta, from left to right: Mario Ricardo Vargas, Raúl Leoni, Valmore Rodríguez, Rómulo Betancourt, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Edmundo Fernández and Gonzalo Barrios. Miraflores Palace, 1945
Rómulo Betancourt voting in the 1946 elections
Foto oficial Rómulo Betancourt 1959
Raúl Leoni 1965
1948 Venezuelan coup d'état
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The 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 24 November 1948, when Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president, Rómulo Gallegos, who ha
Soldiers on the roof of the Venezuelan Congress during the coup.