In 1959, Mathematician Federico Velasco, father of our colleague Lourdes, recommended Victor to take a position as a full-time professor at the Central University of Venezuela, in Caracas. They were three happy years of economic bonanza - Victor and Begoña, Lourdes' mother, remember. In Venezuela, Victor married Carmen Coto. Two months after the birth of Max, the firstborn, in September 1962, there was the world crisis caused by the siege of the United States to Cuba. Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt contributed repressing leftists and Victor went to jail for 12 days along with a large number of members of the Revolutionary Left Movement