Benjamín Velasco Ibarra
Benjamín Velasco Ibarra served as an aide-de-camp to Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. His clandestine notes during the dictator's illness in 1921 chronicled the deterioration of Gómez's health and the ensuing political tension, offering a rare glimpse into the reality behind the official narrative of strength and control in a regime marked by fragility.
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Benjamín Velasco Ibarra was the aide-de-camp of Gómez who documented the dictator's decline in health.
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