* 1908 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( d. 1981 )

** Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( d. 1981 )

** Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( b. 1908 )

* Rómulo Betancourt

He expressed great contempt for Venezuela's president Rómulo Betancourt ; an established and outspoken opponent of Trujillo, Betancourt associated with Dominicans who had plotted against the dictator.

Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt and U. S. President John F. Kennedy at La Morita, Venezuela, during an official meeting for the Alliance for Progress in 1961

Signers of Punto Fijo Pact in 1958, from left to Right: Rafael Caldera, Jóvito Villalba and Rómulo Betancourt

After the overthrow of Pérez Jiménez and the consequent constitution of a provisional government headed by Wolfgang Larrazábal in 1958, Caldera was elected Solicitor General of Venezuela, but left this position, to participate in the 1958 Presidential Elections, which were won by Rómulo Betancourt of Acción Democrática.

Former Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt said in his book Venezuela: Oil and Politics that "(...) Gomez was something more than a local despot, he was the instrument of foreign control of the Venezuelan economy, the ally and servant of powerful outside interests.

Rómulo Betancourt during his childhood

Rómulo Betancourt was born in Guatire, a town near Caracas, son of Luis Betancourt Bello ( from Canary origins ) and Venezuelan Virginia Bello Milano, being the middle brother between his older sister Teresa and younger sister Helena.

Members of the Revolutionary Government Junta, from left to right: Mario Ricardo Vargas, Raúl Leoni, Valmore Rodríguez, Rómulo Betancourt, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Edmundo Fernández and Gonzalo Barrios.

Rómulo Betancourt voting at the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, 1946

Betancourt transferred power to his old teacher, the novelist Rómulo Gallegos ( who was the first Venezuelan president elected by direct and universal suffrage ), being appointed by the latter to head the Venezuelan Delegation to the IX Inter American Conference to be held in Bogotá, in 1948.

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Rómulo Betancourt, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda and Carlos Andrés Pérez during a visit to Táchira state in 1946

When he moved to Caracas, in 1939, he started an ascendant political career as a youth leader and founder of the Democratic Action ( AD ) party, in which he would play an important role during the 20th century, first as a close ally to party founder Rómulo Betancourt and then as a political leader in his own right.

At the age of 23, Pérez was appointed Private Secretary to the Junta President, Rómulo Betancourt, and became Cabinet Secretary in 1946.

In Venezuela, enabling laws allowing the President to rule by decree in selected matters were granted to Rómulo Betancourt ( 1959 ), Carlos Andrés Pérez ( 1974 ), Jaime Lusinchi ( 1984 ), Ramón José Velásquez ( 1993 ) and Rafael Caldera ( 1994 ).

* May 4 – 5 – During the Carupanazo revolt against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft attack rebel positions at Carúpano.

* June 2 – During the Porteñazo revolt of the Venezuelan Marine Corps against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft attack marine corps positions at Puerto Cabello.

* Parque Rómulo Betancourt: located on Universidad Avenue, next to the Universidad de Oriente.

Thus, also there are several notable Venezuelan leaders that are of Canarian descent, such as the precursor of independence Francisco de Miranda, philosopher Andrés Bello and physician José Gregorio Hernández, as well presidents Simón Bolívar, José Antonio Páez, José María Vargas, Carlos Soublette, José Tadeo Monagas, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Rómulo Betancourt and Rafael Caldera.

José José ( born José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz on February 17, 1948 ) is a Mexican singer.

José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz was born on February 17, 1948 in Azcapotzalco, Mexico City.

The bridge across the Apure River at San Fernando commenced construction in 1959 under the direction of President Rómulo Betancourt, and was opened February 1, 1961.

* 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 46th President of Venezuela ( d. 1969 )

* April 7 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan president and writer ( b. 1884 )

* November 24 – In Venezuela, president Rómulo Gallegos is ousted by a military junta.

J. Posadas ( 1912 – 1981 ) ( occasionally referred to as Juan Posadas ), was the pseudonym of Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli, an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism.

Carlos Peña Rómulo ( 14 January 1899 – 15 December 1985 ) was a Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author.

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire ( 2 August 1884 – 7 April 1969 ) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician.

* Rómulo Gallegos ( 1884 – 1969 ), Venezuelan novelist and politician

* Rómulo O ' Farril, Jr. – 1937 – multi-millionaire Mexican businessman ; founder of Televisa in Mexico City

On 21 July 1914 he married María Fidelman y Brodsky and had Juan Negrín y Fidelman, married to Rosita Díaz y Gimeno, Rómulo Negrín y Fidelman ( Madrid, 1917-30 July 2004 ), married to Jeanne Fetter and father of Juan Román Negrín y Fetter ( b. Mexico City, 20 September 1945 ), and Miguel Negrín y Fidelman.

Under pressure from supporters and opponents of the Plan de Ayutla, he resigned in September, turning the office over to Rómulo Díaz de la Vega.

The second classic work on the topic is Historia de la Leyenda Negra hispanoamericana ( 1943 ; History of the Hispanoamerican Black Legend ), by Rómulo D. Carbia.

* Carlos Peña Rómulo, ( 1899-1985 ), Filipino politician who was formerly a president of the UN General Assembly

* 2002: The Danube Seven ( Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Muller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White ), a group of seven women from Germany, Austria, and the United States, were ordained on a ship on the Danube on 29 June 2002 by Rómulo Antonio Braschi, an Independent Catholic bishop whose own episcopal ordination was considered ' valid but illicit ' by the Roman Catholic Church.

It is not, as noted in the Atlas of Venezuela: A Spatial Image ( Atlas de Venezuela: Una imagen espacial, also known as El Atlas de Petróleos de Venezuela ), an ecosystem of " paleodunas ", literally ' old dunes ,' formed in an environment with a much drier climate than the current one, but a mechanism of dune formation that acts only in the dry season since the lowering of the water level of the Orinoco at the rivers ' lowest point, especially that of those that originate in the llanos, extensive beaches of fine sand are left behind, that the trade winds very quickly will transfer to the southeast, forming what now constitutes el Parque Nacional Santos Luzardo ( the Santos Luzardo National Park ), which takes its name from one of the main characters in the famous novel Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos.

In Rómulo Gallegos-winning The Green House ( 1965 ) and The Dream of the Celt ( 2010 ), other novels of Mario Vargas Llosa, also part of the plot occurs in Iquitos.

* Rómulo Méndez ( born 1938 ), Guatemalan football referee

Rómulo, in all, wrote and published 18 books, which included The United ( novel ), I Walked with Heroes ( autobiography ), I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother America and I See the Philippines Rise ( war-time memoirs ).

He has been a member of Colegio Nacional de México since 1996 and has won several international awards, including the 2007 FIL Literature Prize ( Guadalajara International Book Fair ), the 1982 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1985 Best Novel Published in France Award ( for Palinurus of Mexico ), the 1966 Xavier Villaurrutia Award and the 1976 Mexico Novel Award.

* Rómulo Díaz de la Vega ( c. 1800-1877 ), an interim president of Mexico in 1855