A REVOLUTIONIST.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13921, 27 March 1909, Page 5

A REVOLUTIONIST.

EX-PRESIDENT CASTRO.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (Received March 27, 8.5 a.m.) BERLIN, March 26. Ex-President Castro *is returning from Europe. He will remain at Trinidad" and will not ' be allowed to land at Venezuela. Steamers will be prdsecuted if they bring him from Trinidid.

[General Castro is a native of El Tachira, one of tho andine provinces (South America). In the early nineties he was sent to the Federal Senate at Caracas, and* there snubbed for his uncouth provincialism. He returned to his ranch vowing revenge . After a brush with tax-collectors, he raised the standard of revolt, and in a few weeks was froclaimed President of the Andino •rovince. Towards the end of 1898, under President Andrade, he was called in by dissatisfied military 'leaders to bring about a revolution. This he did with the help of his Andinos, and with such success that he was proclaimed Andrade's successor, much to the disgust of the generals who had summoned him. The President of Venezuela has always in a general way been the owner of the country, but no one has owned it quite so completely as General Castro.. He has annulled most of, the concessions granted tp foreigners by his predecessor, and has inflicted indignities on foreign residents. As a result' his ports have been olockaded, and he has perhaps received more ultimatums than any other man living. In April, 1906, General Castro announced that he was abandoning power temporarily, but he soon made a triumphant re-entry into Curacas.]