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Yes, I think the doctrine of his government "El Nuevo Ideal Nacional" consisted on something along those lines.
Another benign "dictatorship" that you could add to the list is the Venezuelan government of Isaias Medina Angarita (1941-1945). Though his government was technically a military government (since he was a military guy whose government was part of a succession of Venezuelan military governments), his government favored more liberties to the Venezuelan political life. In some way, he is considered like a precursor of Venezuelan democracy.
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Any further opinions, especially my proposed addition of Spain's Miguel Primo de Rivera to the list?
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I know he built the first extensive road network in Venezuela (before that, Venezuela was a very agrarian country with very poor and deficient communications). During his government he didn't live in Caracas, like all other Venezuelan presidents, but preferred to establish his residence in Maracay, which was something very eccentric from his part. He was very authoritarian, but he was like an older version of Perez Jimenez, in the sense that he started like a first stage of modernization of the country, so to speak.
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I think Perez Jimenez was also very pro-business, maybe in a different way, since he greatly promoted European immigration (Gomez, Lopez Contreras and Medina Angarita, also did it, but it was greater during Perez Jimenez government), and many of those immigrants built their own businesses. He also tried to diversify the Venezuelan economy and was very in favor of free market. He didn't nationalize the oil industry, that was still in the hands of foreign corporations. The nationalization of oil industry was done during the pseudo-democratic era after Perez Jimenez.
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