PERUVIAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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CIA-RDP82-00457R002600350004-5
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RIPPUB
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S
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1
Document Creation Date:
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date:
November 28, 2000
Sequence Number:
4
Case Number:
Publication Date:
April 15, 1949
Content Type:
REPORT
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1. It is reported that Carlos Miro Quesada Laos, Peruvian Ambassador to Chile
has received instructions from his government to publicize the desire of
the Military Junta to hold erections. Re was therefore basically acting in
accordance with his instructions when be made the statement to the Chilean
press. that a "constitutionally elected president will be installed in the
Governmental Palace before the and of the year".* In mentioning such a time
limitf, however, Miro Quesada followed the line of Lt. Col. Alfonso Llosa,
who advocates early elections, rather than the Odria faction which favors
elections at a later. date. This point is said not to have been specifically
covered in the Ambassador's instructions.
2. Luis A. Flores accepted the Ambassadorship to Rome after receiving Llosa's
promise to see that Odria would keep his word and recall. Flores in time to
help prepare the Union Revolueionaria's (UR) electoral campaign should elections
be held.
3. The UR is generally conceded to be the largest legally organized political
party in Peru today, although the exact figures of its membership are not avail
able. Sources close to the party believe that reports of 200,000 members are
an exaggeration of strength,,
4. Rumors persist that changes in the make-up of the Military Junta will be announced
soon., The ministers to be replaced are to be Federico Diaz Dulanto, Foreign
Relations; Augusto Villacorta, Government and Police; and Carlos Mii ano,
Agriculture
25X1A6a INKC.-onwnt. Mii Quesada's statement to the Chilean press appeared in Lima
newspapers on 13 March.
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