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Luis Herrera Campins | Ex-leader of Venezuela, 82

Former President Luis Herrera Campins, 82, part of a generation of political leaders who helped end a decade of dictatorship and usher in democracy in 1950s Venezuela, died Friday. Mr. Herrera underwent surgery two years ago for an abdominal aneurism that led to a kidney infection and other complications. A lawyer and a journalist, Mr. Herrera was jailed for four months in 1952 for pro-democracy political activism during the dictatorship of Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez, and then expelled from the country. From exile in Spain, he and other Christian Democrat leaders founded the newspaper Tiela, which was distributed secretly in Venezuela. He returned after the dictatorship fell in 1958 and went on to serve several terms as a lawmaker and as president from 1979 to 1984. - AP

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Former President Luis Herrera Campins, 82, part of a generation of political leaders who helped end a decade of dictatorship and usher in democracy in 1950s Venezuela, died Friday.

Mr. Herrera underwent surgery two years ago for an abdominal aneurism that led to a kidney infection and other complications.

A lawyer and a journalist, Mr. Herrera was jailed for four months in 1952 for pro-democracy political activism during the dictatorship of Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez, and then expelled from the country.

From exile in Spain, he and other Christian Democrat leaders founded the newspaper Tiela, which was distributed secretly in Venezuela. He returned after the dictatorship fell in 1958 and went on to serve several terms as a lawmaker and as president from 1979 to 1984.

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