STATE OF SIEGE IN COLOMBIA
MILITARY COURTS GIVEN BROAD POWERS
BOGOTA, Nov. 12.
Military courts took over much of Colombia’s judicial authority yesterday under the state of seige declared by the Conservative President, Mariano Perez, on Wednesday at the height of the campaign for tlye presidential election, wpich scheduled for November 27.
The Presidential decree gave military courts broad powers to investigate cases of subversive aetivity against the state of siege and to try offences* against public security. The Liberal majority in the Colombian Congress held a secret meeting yesterday after which it was announced that* the President’s order dissolving the-legislature would be denied. The statement said: “Congress will continue in the exercise .of its parliamentary functions and will assume all the., powers given it by the Constitution. It can be stopped only by force.” The Press has been placed under strict censorship. A report from Caracas, Yfenezuela, said that Columbia has closed her border with Venezuela—a favourite escape route for political refugees from. Colombia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 29, 14 November 1949, Page 5
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