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Rómulo Betancourt

President of Venezuela, 1945–48 and 1959–64

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello, known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was a Venezuelan politician who served as the president of Venezuela, from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of the Democratic Action, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rómulo Betancourt” as president of Venezuela, 1945–48 and 1959–64. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1945, 1948, 1959, 1964—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Rómulo, Betancourt and President can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as president of Venezuela, 1945–48 and 1959–64. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1945, 1948, 1959 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rómulo Betancourt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.