Presidential elections in Venezuela are almost a year away, but the campaign drums are already beating wildly for one unannounced candidate: Vice Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, 50, a leftist maverick who bossed the military junta that ruled for ten months after the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Openly supported by the Communists, the darkly handsome Larrazábal ran a close race with President Rómulo Betancourt in the elections that followed, and then was sent into semi-exile as Venezuela's Ambassador to Chile. Last week Larrazábal returned to Caracas for "a personal visit," and his supporters, many of them far leftists,...
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