Other participants included the writer José Rafael Pocaterra and Francisco Linares Alcantara. Venezuela's roving diplomat in Europe, José Ignacio Cárdenas, had reported on the planned expedition, which helped defeat it. Books Delgado Chalbaud, Roman (1912), Por mi jefe, por mi causa, y por mi nombre, Emp. El Cojo Capriles Méndez, Ruth (1991), Los negocios de Román Delgado Chalbaud, Academia Nacional de la Historia References 1882 births 1929 deaths 20th-century Venezuelan businesspeople People of Andalusian descent Venezuelan people of French descent Prisoners and detainees of Venezuela Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela People from Mérida, Mérida Venezuelan exiles