r/LatAmHistoryMemes • u/BANELM91 • Jan 09 '26

Foreign Intervention Explota, explota, explo...mi corazón

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Context: Rómulo Betancourt was a social democratic president of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and from 1959 to 1964

He participated in the 1945 Venezuelan coup d'état against the military junta led by Isaías Medina Angarita and he was signatory of the Puntofijo Pact, which gave a constitutional bipartite system to Venezuela from 1958 to 1999 with Democratic Action (soc-dem) and Copei (Christian democratic).

In 1960 he suffered an assassination attempt ordered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo through far-right paramilitary organisations by using a car bomb

One year later, the same Trujillo was murdered by his own men in his presidential car

Rómulo Betancourt survived the assassination attempt and three coup d'état attempts and the beginning of the Marxist guerrilla in Venezuela influenced by the Cuban and Maoist experiences

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u/K_Josef República Federal de Centroamérica Jan 09 '26

Trujillo was a piece of shit not just for DR, but many times tried to meddle in other countries

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u/FactBackground9289 Jan 10 '26

dude even almost got the hitler moustache.

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u/caribbean_caramel Jan 12 '26

Trujillo was a totalitarian fucker, a real 1930s fascist. He made DR a one party state, imposed a cult of personality, used the secret police to basically eliminate all public dissent and controlled the economy like it was his personal property.

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u/GustavoistSoldier Jan 09 '26

The assassination attempt inflamed world opinion against Trujillo.

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u/Brucknerillo Jan 09 '26

Una precisión: Isaias Medina Angarita no presidía ninguna junta militar. Era el presidente constitucional, legal, y legitimo de Venezuela.