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Familiar Talk. In Los Angeles, Deaf Mute John M. Yenscho was able to identify Deaf Mute Ignacio Amezue as the masked man who had held him up: "I recognized him by the way he wiggled his fingers...
...weeks ago Colonel Aguirre and his officers muscled out Provisional President Andres Ignacio Menendez, under whom the 1,704,497 Salvadorans had enjoyed five months of wildly free speech and press. They had reinstated the country's Constitution of 1886, which acknowledges the right to insurrection. Colonel Aguirre suspended the Constitution, proceeded to "maintain order." Hundreds were jailed. With a friendly word toward neighboring Dictator Tiburcio Carias of Honduras, Colonel Aguirre raided the headquarters of the Honduran revolutionaries in San Salvador's Nuevo Mundo Hotel. The arresting officers were so rough with the Honduran leaders they caught that...
...revolutionary mood spread to neighboring El Salvador, where two opposing factions both battled Government troops in an attempt to move their candidates into the President's office. President Andres Ignacio Menéndez resigned promptly "for health reasons" and was replaced by Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, who represented a third faction. Also from El Salvador came word that revolution had broken out in Honduras...
Loyal Soldier. General Andrés Ignacio Menéndez, Provisional President of El Salvador, was doing pretty well. Appointed by the tottering Dictator, Maximiliano Hernández Martinez, Menéndez might have made himself Dictator too. Instead he announced that he would hold the Government in trust for an elected president...
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez, the Dictator's Minister of War, fell heir to the government, appointed some new Ministers, but had yet to clean out all Martinez' men from Cabinet and lesser posts. He gave general amnesty to all political prisoners, freed the press, agreed to keep power only until elections could be held. Exiles and refugees hoped that the heirs of the Dictator had no dictatorial ideas of their own. They flocked back to El Salvador, determined to give their country a democratic government...