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Despite the inefficiency—or indifference —of Venezuela's censors, the government warned newsmen that they would be expelled if they tried to beat the blackout. By way of emphasis, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois was bounced out of the country within 24 hours of his arrival, could not return until after the government was overthrown. Within half an hour of Dictator Pérez Jiménez' flight, the ten-year-old censorship was scrapped. Nonetheless, newsmen still had a complaint: to quell street rioting, the new government slapped a ban on liquor sales that proved far harder to crack than censorship.