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Little El Salvador was the first Central American country to use passive resistance to depose a dictator. Last May General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez was ousted by a sit-down strike (brazos caidos, literally: arms dangling). When a military clique/headed by Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, clamped a new dictatorship on the country last week, Salvadorans began to dangle their arms again in a dangerous...
...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...
...Army sulked. Its 26 colonels and generals, accustomed to power, feared that a civilian government would reduce their privileges. When they threatened a military coup Menéndez called them to the palace, cowed them with some tough talk...
...people of San Salvador paraded, hailed Menéndez as their "loyal soldier." This crisis surmounted, El Salvador's prospects improved. The old Dictator's reign of terror had vanished. The press was free and vigorous But El Salvador's democrats still had a hard job ahead, in a country where most of the people are unused to governing themselves...
...candidate for the presidency: Dr. Arturo Romero, gravely wounded hero of the revolution, who has been in New York for medical treatment. Tall, good-looking, 33-year-old Dr. Romero is a gentle idealist who nevertheless makes sense. If he wins the presidency, he can thank General Menéndez, the "loyal soldier...