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Popular support of Castro has been manifesting itself all over Latin America in the last few months. In El Salvador, large groups of students gathered before the U.S. embassy shouting, "Cuba si, Yanqui no." Last August 29, thousands of Venezuelans, demonstrating against the OAS decision, forced their government to give complete support to the Cuban revolution and Castro. In the capital of Ecuador, rioting workers and peasants, protesting against the slow and inefficient land reform program in their country, marched through the streets shouting, "Viva Cuba." In Argentines, even the "Congress of Christian Democratic Organizations" gave its support...
Through pattering rain, ten armed soldiers and three officers marched up the driveway of the San Salvador mansion of President Jose Maria Lemus at 10'clock one morning last week. The group's leader drew his pearl-handled Luger pistol, rapped discreetly at the door, waited. The door opened, and there stood Lemus- barefoot, wearing blue pajamas. "What's up?'' he asked. "You are no longer President, my colonel," said the officer. "In fact, you are under arrest...
Still in pajamas, the ex-President was whisked to a downtown fort for 24 hours' safekeeping before flying off to Costa Rica, where his wife Coralia has relatives. In a bloodless power shift, El Salvador's middle and upper classes had acted to remedy a situation that had the makings of a bloody, Castro-style revolution...
...agents of Fidel Castro and by one of the Americas' broadest gulfs between haves and have-nots (average daily agricultural wage: 60?). He outlawed unruly opposition parties, saw to it that persuasive opponents of the regime were jailed. Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even for El Salvador. When parading students protested a ban on public meetings, his police responded with clubs, fire hoses and point-blank rifle fire; boys were beaten and several girls were raped. Horrified by such excess and fearful of total, bloody revolt, the nation's respectable moderates organized a preventive coup...
...Cuban type,'' he said. To a crowd outside the palace he called: "Because we believe that you deserve more than a crumb of bread and justice is precisely why we are here." How much more than a crumb it would take to keep El Salvador pacified remained to be seen...