Virginia Betancourt

Virginia Betancourt Valverde (born 11 April 1935) is an author and former national library director.

She served as Director of the National Library of Venezuela (Instituto Autónomo Biblioteca Nacional).

She wrote books about her family, efforts to free Cuban exiles imprisoned after the "Bay of Pigs" invasion attempting to overthrow Fidel Castro,[3] and a book about libraries in Latin America.

She was born in San Jose, Costa Rica.

[4] She gave an interview published April 2021.