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Between 1963, 1979 and 2010 I witnessed the fundamental change in society in which peasants migrated to the cities which led to amalgamation of minifundios and some degree of mechanization. The education-focused Betancourt—a true democrat, president from 1945 to 1948 and politically active until 1981—refused to resort to the firing squad to deal with those who revolted against constitutional government.
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Watters, R. (2021). Venezuela Revisited: 1979 and 2010—Betancourt. In: Rural Latin America in Transition. Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65033-9_9
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