May 13, 1958 - Vice President Richard Nixon attacked in Venezuela

During a goodwill trip through Latin America, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by an angry crowd and nearly overturned while traveling through Caracas, Venezuela. The incident was the dramatic highlight of trip characterized by Latin American anger over some of America's Cold War policies. The trip began with some controversy, as Nixon engaged in loud and bitter debates with student groups during his travels through Peru and Uruguay. In Caracas, Venezuela, however, things took a dangerous turn. A large crowd of angry Venezuelans who shouted anti-American slogans stopped Nixon's motorcade through the capital city. They attacked the car, damaged its body and smashed the windows. Inside the vehicle, Secret Service agents covered the vice president and at least one reportedly pulled out his weapon. Miraculously, they escaped from the crowd and sped away. In Washington, President Eisenhower dispatched U.S. troops to the Caribbean area to rescue Nixon from further threats if necessary. None occurred, and the vice president left Venezuela ahead of schedule.

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[GUACARICA]

@pushups2345 I don't buy this shit. Where did you find this crap?

[pistolierer]

wish i owned that cadi.

[lalbruiz]

LOL, I love, as somebody says, the passionate description of what was going on...Nixon gives me the idea of somebody who is intrinsecally disgusting but tries desperately to be appreciated by everyone...sad he never understood this and the fact that nobody liked him, well, except maybe his family. That was a nightmare for the Secret Service, bet today not one person could get so near the car without facing some bullets, at least...

[SLAPnPOP726]

They had the complete right to throw riot. They realized that the American imperialists were no doubt about to place a conservative, borderline fascist into Venezuelan presidency who was in the back pocket of US corporations, even though they wanted to DEMOCRATICALLY elect a communist leader. Just one of the many examples of proof that America treats other countries like slave plantations and their people as subhuman-heathens (I am half-American if that makes this rant any different)

[LordBlacknemp]

No es comunismo ni nada. La situacion en Venezuela en esa epoca era distinta. No teniamos ni un año de salir de una decada de dictadura militar, controlada en su mayor parte por Marcos Perez Jimenes, que fue apoyado por los Estados Unidos. Asi que, si a los 4 meses de salir de una dictadura apoyada por EE.UU. viene el Vicepresidente de EE.UU. es obvio que la respuesta buena y cordial no va a ser.

[superedesca]

Que fastidio con los comunistas infiltrados en la sociedad venezolana. Cualquiera diria que cuba es el cielo y la extinta union sovietica el paraiso en la tierra.

[2009jimmy2009]

AMERICAN SCUM!

[pushups2345]

@ROLDANMENDOZAUCV sorry, i had a spelling error

[ROLDANMENDOZAUCV]

@pushups2345 put your coment again

[pushups2345]

@ROLDANMENDOZAUCV @ROLDANMENDOZAUCV Bolivar wrote that to a british "gringo" agent he wanted support from because "a very rich and powerful nation, extremely war-like and capable of anything, is at the head of this continent." - and he was right, we torment with with "Libertad" ideological enemies of freedom, like communists.

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