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Rómulo Gallegos

Died in 1969

Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas on 2 August 1884 and was at first a teacher. Hostile to the regime of Juan Vicente Gómez, he took refuge in Spain and returned to Venezuela only in 1936, after the dictator's death. A candidate of Acción Democrática, he won the 1947 election and took office in February 1948; a military coup overthrew him in November of the same year. Exiled to Cuba and then Mexico, he returned in 1958 and died in Caracas in April 1969.

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