HONDURAS VOTE ON FEB 16 IS LIMITED

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500280001-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

M. 220, 491
S. 243,883
FEB 1 1965
Vote
By BERT QUIN'P priviloged Army-2 its pun TD1RD, a year later 'a pares-
NY HERALD TRIBUNE QUINP
fERVIC6 date w'ercrenewed. So the outs Identlal election would be held.
and the military got together The former president would
TEGUCIGALPA - -Democ-! and voted.the ins out of office not give a "'yes" or "no"an-
racy, which took a giant stop - with their rifles. swet' as to whether he would
backward in Honduras when WASHINGTON proclaimed he his party's' candidate at
d
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. v ....mouths,. mouths,. to recognize the ! according to Villeda, Is much
President Ramon Villeda Mo- I new g6ve: ;rent. When it if- simpler:
1'rales has been permitted to! tinily granted recognition, it If it wins the Assembly, it.
return from his Costa Ri
did
can
so only after getting Lopez will name Lopez constitutional
I exile. II.& Co to promise they would', president. No fuss, no bother;
THE LEGAL name of Ville- 1, be gonii boys and move, before no transition, no waste of time.
da's country is the Republic too long, toward a return to j Just a change in the coloncl'k
of Honduras. But, more often constitutionality. That is, to title.
than not since it became in-'start heading back to.. where Villeda had a few comments
dependent of $pain in 1821, the the country was before t'hc to make about the United
Central American nation has''saved" it. Slates:
been run by military officers Now, ihtr promissory noles "I'M VERY FOND of the
rather than by a president. I am falling due. On Tuesday,;!, U.S. but some official organ of
Villeda was about to end his Feb .16, elections will be held the United States must have
term as constitutional chief for a Constituent Assembly, given at least tacit approval
executive when the Armed whose job it will be t
d
t
"
o
raw
o my overthrow.
(He appar-
i Forces prematurely ended it i a new blueprint for govern en'tly wasn't talking about Idle,
for him on Oct 3, 1963, just ment. Stale Department, but he
10 days before elections were AN AMNESTY has been wouldn't specify whether he
to be held for his successor, granted permitting most of meant Iha%QLAw4 e Pentagon
VOTERS AT that time were th
n
n
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ose se
ot
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nto exile in 1963 to of a
er group.)
making up their minds for go back-but not in time to be
"?'he Honduran AtTrq would
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Col ciOsvaldovilians
All' force
opt z '. bly ibo ; events tot\ohct tAsse~u o he wlr." (Honduras. dared oIsitone' of V Amnesty Granted
sloppy coup d'etat that broke gas Alvarado, the Liberal P;n'-
the principal rule of Latin mil- ty's presidential candidate in
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t
1963
otherwise grab the marbles"-
the colonel elected himself, t Anyway, retu Redns Al' o Tee al.
Several persons died in fight. ready haAn(i d Villeda In ales
log that might have been'. was~t preparing Ito go . as, I
avoided with a little careful`' talked to him here
coupmanship. And since then,,, VILLEDA says his party's
Lopez has been chief-ot-state. . plan is fnxt to wit , n the As-IN ONE RESPECT, the mil- sembly eh'ction.-. (It can win, ',
nary did follow the rules of the says. If it doesn't, he said,
Latin American revolution. It pit will bn robbery. He maybe.
announced that it was taking right.)
power to save the country
from SECOND, the A s so mIi I d
Communis,,,
the
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Jite
States couldn't from ilia Liberal Party, one.l
J quite buy the theory. It re- front the National Party, and
alized that it was pretty much
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.
one
neutral."
a Ile admits it
question of the outs-the might be hard to find a Pet.
National Party - having little lilical neutral in Honduras but:
hope of getting in by the Maybe we can got the arch- ,`
electoral route and of the i s r.,,
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-
aten
woo wntl act neutral
to clip the , wings Of the highly 25 YEAR RE-REVIEW J]
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