Turmoil Continues In Latin America

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28927, 22 June 1959, Page 11

Turmoil Continues In Latin America

(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 20. Threats of revolt, reports of invasion plans, plots, counter-plots and diplomatic tension were highlights of continuing turmoil in Latin America last night.

The threat of revolt was in ■ Argentina, where President Arturo Frondizi apparently at least temporarily survived a major move by rebellious military leaders. Army and Navy officers had threatened a showdown unless . President Frondizi surrendered to their demands for drastic changes i in Government policies. The military leaders were rei ported to have called for the re- . moval of Government officials i accused of having Communist i leanings and also those favour- ; ing the former dictator, Juan Peron. The officers also were said i to be disturbed over the labour and financial troubles that have . plagued the Frondizi regime. Although the situation has not been clarified, it appeared that ) President Frondizi was safe for • the time being. He was reported i to have reached some agreement . with the military men and the two military "leaders, Rear- > Admiral Arturo Rial and Lieuten- ’ ant-General Arturo Ossorio Arana, surrendered to the Government after an arrest order was i issued.

Fears of invasion were expressed in Nicaragua by the Government of President Luis Somoza. Government spokesmen said a band of rebels was preparing to invade Nicaragua from Honduras, Nicaragua's neighbour to the north. They said the band had been discovered by the NicaraguanHonduran Border Commission and a Note was sent to Honduras asking that the insurgents be disarmed and interned. More evidence of another plan to invade Nicaragua came to light in Costa Rica, which borders Nicaragua to the south. A band of rebels gave up its arms to a Costa Rican peace mission, but took flight instead of surrendering as promised. In Havana, unconfirmed reports circulated that a ship carrying 300 armed men had sailed from a port in eastern Cuba bound for the Dominican Republic, the American Associated Press said. An alleged plot against the Trujillo Government in the Dominican Republic, was de-

scribed in the capital of Ciudad Trujillo by the Dominican Republic’s Air Force chief, General Jose Garcia Trujillo. He said that Cuba was the centre for invasion attempts against other countries and claimed that insurgent forces also had received money and arms from the Venezuelan Government.