Eisenhower's Worry About Trujillo

Rafael Trujillo had a long-standing rivalry with Romulo Betancourt, the president of Venezuela. In 1951, one of his men tried to kill Betancourt when he visited Havana by stabbing him with a poisoned syringe. This led to some understandable anger by Betancourt against Trujillo. By 1960, the United States is starting to get pissed off and Eisenhower considered the attacks on Betancourt to be the last straw. So he tells the CIA to help the anti Trujillo underground do a coup.