POSSIBLE COUP D'ETAT AGAINST OSORIO JUNTA

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY El Salvador
SUBJECT Possible Coup d'Etat against Osoria Junta
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1e :several sources have reported that a military coup is in preparation in
El Salvador which might break out any day to free Colo Osmin Aguirre and
destroy the power of'the present governing junta,,
2. In a letter from a man named Efrain Lopez to his sister Lucia Lopez at
Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. Bias Cantizano of San Salvador was named as one
of the organizers of this movement. Lopez wrote that Cantizano had
succeeded in procuring arms and in securing the collaboration of various
colonels. Lopez asked his sister to advise him if it would be propitious
to have Dr, Max P. Brannon, former Minister of Economy under Cesteneda,
seek exile in Venezuela should the movement fail.
3. A second source also reported that a group of officers and civilians was
planning a coup d'etat to free Col, Aguirre, They included the following:
Col,,, Banacio Reyes
Maj., Reyes
Maj, Antonio Valdes
Col, Joaquin Valdes
Cols Ezquiel Guzman
Drs Wax P. Brannon
Dr, Lisandro Villalobos
Colo Fogelbach Seldivar
Co]., (]arCia
Gen, Gustavo Lopez
Gen, rantiago Ayala
Col. Eugenio Palms
Dr, Damion Rosales
5ouroa eadeci i nar. the entire Guardia National of Nicaragua opposed the present
Salvadoran junta, and would be available to either the Aguirre partisans or
those of Major Cerranza Amaya (junta member) who is about to come to an open
break with rya jor Osorio.,
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4, Further details of the plan called for the creation of disorder in&tinta Ana
and Ahuchapan as a diversion and a pretext. Osmin Gguirre will be allowed
by Coles Palma to walk out of the penitentiary and will go to the San Carlos
Garrison. This garrison, the Cavalry Regiment, and the National Guard will
be taken over by prior arrangement based on bribes. These three units will
call upon the let Regiment (Fort Zapate) to surrender,,
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50 Dr. Damian Rosales was identified as a man serving as a liaison between the
military plotters and certain "foreign" capitalists who rre furnishing the
funds, most of which are being used for briberyo
6, According to Jose Rafael Ulloa-1oraaan, an Osmin Aguirre supporter, the plot
is well advanced, He said he was invited to join during the last week in
February but refused. He added that good communications had been established
between the prison and the outside, and that many people keep in contact with
Aguirrea
7o The junta is presumably informed of the proposed coup, since the information
is known to have been divulged to the student leader Ulises Flores, who
undoubtedly would have passed it on to the civilian members of the junta,
n unconfirmed report has been received that a number of Oemin Aguirre
supporters including six Arigy officers, were captured on the night of 2 March,
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MEMO Comment, reported that supporters of Osmin Aguirre had
purchased as junk a large consignment of guns from the government arsenal,
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