Perez Jimenez's Venezuela portal page: 1950's, the dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez is governing Venezuela. In bustling cities, businessmen make fortunes, while middle-class girl clerks and secretaries, emancipated from ancient constraints by modern salaries, drive their own convertibles or fly to Miami for vacations and shopping. In the country, the rope-soled sandal that only recently covered the bare foot is being rapidly replaced by the shoe.