831.00/11–2548: Telegram
The Ambassador in Venezuela (Donnelly) to the Secretary of State
Unnumbered. Creation Military Junta announced midnight November 24th. Summary text follows. Act of Constitution of Traditional Government of Venezuela November 24, 1948 at Miraflores. Since armed forces have assumed control of the nation a Military Junta has been created and will be composed of Lieut. Col. Carlos Delgado Chalbaud as President, Lieut. Col. Llovera Páez.1
The Junta will be empowered to issue all necessary decrees and other legal acts required by majority vote. It will have secretary who may be removed at will. All question of constitutional order will be settled in accordance with provisions of constitution of July 1936, amended in May 1945, and without prejudice to using those progressive provisions of constitution of 1947; the present laws of the country will be maintained where they do not conflict with the present act.
[Page 130]Signed by Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, Ricardo Mario Vargas, Jose Leon Rangel, Wolfgang Larrazabal, Felix Román Moreno, Oscar Tamayo Suarez, Miguel Moreno.
- Marcos Pérez Jiménez was another member of the Junta, and Miguel Moreno was Secretary of the Junta.↩