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    Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was born in Michelena, Táchira State. His father, Juan Pérez Bustamante, was a farmer; his mother, Adela Jiménez, a...
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    mainly during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez and that of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in the 20th century and during the Bolivarian Revolution in the 21st...
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    d'état which overthrew dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. In the early 1950s, under the government of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez a Housing Unit apartments designed...
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    contribution from Pérez Jiménez for her group. Lorenz said: "He chased me around for six weeks." Lorenz claimed that Castro and Pérez Jiménez each fathered...
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    the twentieth century. After the fall of dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez and returning from exile, Pérez served as the interior affairs minister for Rómulo...
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    government, leading them to be falsified and to one of the three leaders, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, assuming the Presidency. His government was brought to an end by...
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  • reforms, Pérez Jiménez was deposed in a coup perpetrated by disgruntled sectors within the Armed Forces of Venezuela on 23 January 1958. Pérez Jiménez left...
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    General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, was a historical event that occurred in Venezuela, through which the dictatorship of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, who was...
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    rigged. On 23 January 1958, a coup d'état was performed against Pérez Jiménez. Pérez Jiménez, fleeing from Miraflores Palace, went to La Carlota Airport to...
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    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...
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    from companies like Mobil and Exxon to the personal coffers of Pérez Jiménez. Pérez Jiménez received the Legion of Merit from the U.S. government in 1954...
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    He served as President of Venezuela following the overthrow of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in the 23 January 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état, standing down later...
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    torture was common during the dictatorships of Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Torture also took place occasionally during Venezuela's democratic...
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  • Marcos Pérez may refer to: Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914-2001), Venezuelan politician Marcos Pérez Esquer (born 1970), Mexican politician Marcos Pérez (born...
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    began with the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. After a short period of political instability following Pérez Jiménez's exile in 1958, democracy was...
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    Humberto Fernández-Morán (category Marcos Pérez Jiménez ministers)
    appointed Minister of Education during the last year of the regime of Marcos Pérez Jiménez and was forced to leave Venezuela when the dictatorship was overthrown...
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    Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 23 January 1958, when the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was overthrown. A transition government under first Adm. Wolfgang...
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    Ramón José Velásquez (category Political prisoners during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez)
    Academy of History.[citation needed] During the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Velásquez was jailed for a year for his role at the compilation...
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    (1884–1886; 1892–1898) Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922–2010), former president (1974–1979; 1989–1993) Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914–2001), former president (1952–1958)...
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    first democratic period (1945–1948). A decade of dictatorship under Marcos Pérez Jiménez followed, which saw AD excluded from power. With the advent of democracy...
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  • Pérez is a very common Castilian Spanish surname of patronymic origin. The surname, written in Spanish orthography as Pérez, is a patronymic surname meaning...
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    Raúl Leoni (category Political prisoners during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez)
    Raúl Leoni Otero (26 April 1905 – 5 July 1972) was the president of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969. He was a member of the Generation of 1928 and a charter...
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    Venezuela. Nevertheless, army officers Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, threw him out of power November in...
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    Flor María Chalbaud (category Marcos Pérez Jiménez)
    Bolivarian Ladies Society. On 4 February 1945, Chalbaud married General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and was First Lady of Venezuela during his presidency between 2...
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  • Fruit Company and of Anastasio Somoza García, Rafael Trujillo and Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the US-backed right-wing dictators of Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic...
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  • Military dictatorship in Venezuela (category Marcos Pérez Jiménez)
    political partner, Pérez Jiménez, who had Delgado Chalbaud assassinated, nevertheless some believe this is unlikely since the wife of Pérez Jiménez, Doña Flor...
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    passed on February 17, 1954, by the military governor of Venezuela, Marcos Pérez Jiménez. The shield is divided in the colors of the national flag. In the...
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    only months after the overthrow in January of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, who in 1954 had been awarded the Legion of Merit and was later granted...
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  • during the rest of the 20th century: Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1963 (more than four years) and Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1993 (more than two years). The February...
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  • Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica (category Marcos Pérez Jiménez)
    crossed the border from Nicaragua into Costa Rica. Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez provided financial support to the rebels and, reportedly, air support...
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