Talk:Rómulo Betancourt

message: I've been a long time surfer of Wikipedia but just constantly get frustrated with the quality
and reliability of the content. I pulled this from a compilation of notes I made while reading
Betancourt's book Venezuela Oil & Politics. I know all the page numbers it's just I'm not
familiar with all the Wiki keys and symbols on the editing functions yet. I know I should play
around in the sandbox first (and when I did, there was edit-clash or something like that) 
but I figure I'll get it figured out and then come back and fix this. It's better to have this 
up now I suppose.
I also changed the year and name of the original clandestine party that Betancourt founded
that would turn into Accion Democratica once receiving legal status.
Maybe once I get good at editing I'll add some Schlesinger quotes on Betancourt so that 
it's not just Ronald Reagan!! Neoliberalism, right?...
AdrianLaTraceJr 05:17, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reform of Oil Industry 

message: It says that after the assasination incident he regained popular confidence in his regime. The article leaves out the best part of the biography. In one of his speeches he had vowed "may my hands burn if they have ever stolen from the treasury" and sure enough his hands burned.--129.171.180.20 (talk) 01:31, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  May my hands burn incident 

message: Do we really need a speech from Reagan in the end about his death? I think a speech from a notable Venezuelian, such as his successor would be better.
:The word "Venezuelian" doesn't exist. Regarding your comment, I think it is quite remarkable that a foreign leader expressed his condolence towards the Venezuelan people in such words. --190.38.176.219 03:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reagan speech 

message: This article does not really fully describe the role that Betancourt had as a Cold War leader. All important national leaders become involved with controversies, but this article does not document any, which makes him seem less important than he was in his time. I have added a bit of controversy and encourage others to do this as well, because (1) it assists with NPOV and (2) all important leaders have controversies and (3) the Reader should be able to access sources about controversies.
I'm reading the 1960 Red Star Over Cuba which really is a discussion of the Cold War in the Caribbean and have added some text directly supported by this scholarly book. I suggest adding a Cold War section, because Betancourt is among the primary leaders for the Cold War in the Caribbean, one of the two most important Cold War battlefields.
The text below is a mixture of what Red Star directly said and what is implied. I have only edited the article where it is directly supported, but this approach does not really offer the necessary cntext offered below.
===Bentancourt as a Cold War leader===
The Caribbean was very significant globally during the Cold War and Betancourt had an important and controversial Cold War role. The political environment was very complex because two sometimes conflicting political currents had then become important. The Caribbean nations were experiencing significant national political revolutions and changes and they were also often deeply embroiled within the Cold War tensions.
As a young man Betancourt was expelled from Venezuela for radical agitation and he moved to Costa Rica where he founded and led a number of radical and Communist student groups.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. page 3. OOC:60-53203. In the early 1930s, while in Costa Rica, he became at age 22, the leader of that country's Communist Party.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. pages 3-5. OOC:60-53203. In 1937, after resigning from the Comunist Party and returning to Venezula, he founded the Partido Democrático Nacional, which became an official party in 1941 as Acción Democrática (AD). The Columbian leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán claimed that Betancourt had "offered him arms and money to launch a revolution in Columbia" which was part of Betancourt's apparent plan to build a solid phlanx of leftwing regimes in the Caribbean.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. page 4-5. OOC:60-53203. It was alleged by Azula Barrera and Colombian President Mariano Ospina Pérez that Betancourt had helped lead the armed rising at the 1948 Inter-American Conference that left more than a thousand people dead, and among these was the political asassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. page 25, 30-31. OOC:60-53203.
Betancourt was a strong advocate for armed insurrection and revolution, but his focus was upon national and regional priorities rather than Cold War priorities. Fidel Castro took a contrasting perspective and following the Cuban Revolution lead Cuba directly into the center of the Cold War. Betancourt did support the Cuban revolution initially with fifty million dollars,Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. page 141. OOC:60-53203. but would later distance himself and Venezuela from Castro's Cold War focus.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. pages 170-171. OOC:60-53203. Raggz (talk) 22:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cold War

message: The Caribbean was very significant globally during the Cold War and Betancourt had an important and controversial Cold War role. The political environment was very complex because two sometimes conflicting political currents had then become important. The Caribbean nations were experiencing significant national political revolutions and changes and they were also often deeply embroiled within the Cold War tensions.
As a young man Betancourt was expelled from Venezuela for radical agitation and he moved to Costa Rica where he founded and led a number of radical and Communist student groups.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. page 3. OOC:60-53203. In the early 1930s, while in Costa Rica, he became at age 22, the leader of that country's Communist Party.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. pages 3-5. OOC:60-53203. In 1937, after resigning from the Comunist Party and returning to Venezula, he founded the Partido Democrático Nacional, which became an official party in 1941 as Acción Democrática (AD). The Columbian leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán claimed that Betancourt had "offered him arms and money to launch a revolution in Columbia" which was part of Betancourt's apparent plan to build a solid phlanx of leftwing regimes in the Caribbean.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. page 4-5. OOC:60-53203. It was alleged by Azula Barrera and Colombian President Mariano Ospina Pérez that Betancourt had helped lead the armed rising at the 1948 Inter-American Conference that left more than a thousand people dead, and among these was the political asassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. page 25, 30-31. OOC:60-53203.
Betancourt was a strong advocate for armed insurrection and revolution, but his focus was upon national and regional priorities rather than Cold War priorities. Fidel Castro took a contrasting perspective and following the Cuban Revolution lead Cuba directly into the center of the Cold War. Betancourt did support the Cuban revolution initially with fifty million dollars,Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. page 141. OOC:60-53203. but would later distance himself and Venezuela from Castro's Cold War focus.Nathaniel Weyl. 1960. Red Star Over Cuba. pages 170-171. OOC:60-53203. Raggz (talk) 22:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bentancourt as a Cold War leader

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 07:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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