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...death of a U.S. boy provided the final push to topple the tyrant from power. At the height of the civil revolution, 17-year-old Joseph Wright (son of a U.S. father, a Salvadorian mother) was talking with friends on a street of strike-bound San Salvador. In obedience to a police command, they dispersed. But one policeman fired, killed Joseph instantly...
Joseph Wright's funeral climaxed the popular movement against the Dictator. At the request of the boy's mother, there were no speeches, no noise, no overt demonstrations. But practically the entire city of San Salvador gathered to watch the procession. Hundreds followed the coffin in absolute silence...
...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...
...fall of El Salvador's Martinez opened the second breach in the line of Central American dictators. The first breach was an old one-democratic Costa Rica, where a new President peacefully took office last week. No army puppet, no revolutionist, President Teodoro Picado had won a fair election...
Excepting Costa Rica (and Panama, overshadowed by the Canal Zone), Central America has long been dictator territory. Until recently the tyrants of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador guarded each other's frontiers, hunted each other's refugees. When the upset in El Salvador broke their united front last week, the three remaining dictators must have readied their firing squads...