REBELLION IN COLOMBIA
NEW YORK, July 10
A message from Bogota, Colombia, states that Vice-President Echandia has announced that he has assumed the Acting Presidency because a rebellious group of army officers seized President Alfonso Lopez and several Cabinet Ministers while they were witnessing army manoeuvres at Pasto, in southern Colombia..
Senor Echandia described the rebellion as an "act of individual madness" by a subversive lieutenant-colonel, Diogenes Dil, who proclaimed himself President.
He added that the majority of the people and the army favoured President Lopez.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1944, Page 4
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