Eleazar López Contreras
president of Venezuela
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restoration of dictatorship
- In Venezuela: Technocrats and party politics
Eleazar López Conteras, who had been war minister under Gómez, succeeded him and served as president until 1941. López restored civil liberties, sanctioned political activity, and permitted labour to organize during 1936; but he restored the dictatorship in 1937, when the opposition became too threatening.…
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