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In July 24 1960, Venezuelan president Rómulo Betancourt was the target of an assassination attempt which consisted of the detonation of a car bomb in the middle of a parade celebrating the Battle of Carabobo in Caracas. Though two people died, Betancourt got away with only severe burns in his hands.

What if he was fatally wounded? Would Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic and the person behind the whole plot (If Wikipedia is to be believed, he had an obsessive hatred of Betancourt) be assassinated earlier? Would there be any consequences to South American (Colombia, Brazil and the like) stability as a whole? Who would succeed Betancourt as president of Venezuela?
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