Profile
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Politician + General Officer + Engineer
Male
Born
Apr 25, 1914
Hometown
Táchira
Died
Sep 25, 2001
Death Place
Alcobendas
Religion
Catholic Church
Nationality
Venezuelan
Alma Mater
Military academy ...
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was a Venezuelan military and general officer of the Army of Venezuela, engineer and politician. His period in charge of the country is characterized by a marked improvement and development, with the rise of oil prices… Read More
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Bintaufa Recupera La Segunda B Diario MenorcaGoogle News - Aug 28, 2011
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1914
Birth
Born on April 25, 1914.
TWENTIES
1934
20 Years Old
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was born in Michelena, Táchira State. His father, Juan Pérez Bustamante, was a farmer; his mother, Adela Jiménez, a schoolteacher. Pérez Jiménez attended school in his home town and in Colombia, and in 1934, he graduated from the Academia Militar de Venezuela, at the top of his class.
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THIRTIES
1945
31 Years Old
In 1945, Pérez Jiménez participated in a coup that helped install left wing Democratic Action party founder, Rómulo Betancourt, as President of the Revolutionary Government Junta, in a government that later became known as El Trienio Adeco. After a constitutional change providing universal suffrage, elections were held in 1947 which resulted in the election of party member, Romulo Gallegos.
1948
34 Years Old
Fears of cuts in pay for military men, reduction and lack of modernization of army equipment led Pérez Jiménez and Lt. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud to stage another coup in 1948, the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état (Chalbaud has always been incorrectly referred to by his father's last names.
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1952
38 Years Old
When early results showed that the opposition leader was ahead and would win, the junta suspended the election and made Pérez provisional president on 2 December 1952.
FORTIES
1957
43 Years Old
Pérez Jiménez was up for reelection in 1957, but dispensed with these formalities.
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1958
44 Years Old
In January 1958, there was a general uprising and, with rioting in the streets, Pérez left the country.
1963
49 Years Old
He moved to the United States, where he lived until 1963, when he was extradited to Venezuela on charges of embezzling $200 million during his presidential tenure.
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FIFTIES
Then with the right-wing party National Civic Crusade was elected Senator in 1968 which was disabled by following the first amendment carried out to the Venezuelan Constitution of 1961 by the Democratic Action and COPEI parties, after which life definitely withdrawn national policy.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2001
87 Years Old
Died on September 25, 2001.
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