Word: revolt
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...since the Bay of Pigs debacle had the U.S. Senate echoed to such harsh words over the Kennedy Administration's policy in Latin America. Last week still another legally constituted Latin American government fell by the wayside, toppled by military revolt. The victim this time was the small Central American republic of Honduras. It was the second such coup in eight days, the fourth this year, the seventh since President Kennedy took office.* Throughout, the U.S. has seemed powerless either to prevent the coups or even decide on a consistent approach...
Taking over as one-man ruler was Colonel Osvaldo López, 42, the armed forces chief who masterminded the revolt. With the sureness of past experience-he had led another coup in 1956 -López cut off communication to the countryside, imposed martial law and canceled the Oct. 13 presidential election. Ex-President Villeda Morales and ex-Presidential Candidate Rodas Alvarado were packed aboard an air force C-47 and flown to exile in Costa Rica. The Honduran army then went about mopping up loyalist resistance. At week's end, just as the new regime was being...
Last summer three student members of the Young Socialist Alliance at Indiana University were indicted for subversion under a 1951 State Anti-Communist Act. The indictment was based on two YSA meetings. One was a public gathering at which a Negro spoke on the "Black Revolt in America," urging Negroes to seek political power and to meet violence with violence. The other was a private meeting at which the defendants and friends gathered to plan a defense against a previous indictment...
...took two years of exile as the result of an over-energetic protest against the government to turn the farmer to politics. Returning to Costa Rica with a change of government in 1944, he became embroiled in local politics. In 1948 he led a revolt against President Teodoro Picado and set up "a republic to end the spectacle of the majority impoverished by inefficiency and social privilege." Serving as the nation's provisional president for 18 months in 1948 and 1949 and again as its elected president from 1953 to 1958, Figueres made Costa Rica a showcase of Latin American...
Grad Students Revolt...