POLITICAL ACTIVITIES IN EL SALVADOR APRIL-MAY 1950

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000600010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Politic. ], Activities in :i1. Sslvador April I.1ay 1950 NO. OF PAGES 2
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1n According to President--elect Oscar Osorio, he is planning to assurce the
office of President in September or Uctober 1950 Since El Salvador trill
h've no Constitution until the present Assembly passes one, the date
that tho Council of Government nil stop down and give full governing
authority to Osorio is a natter of conjectuiree
2.9 L ajor .isoriod, who defeated his only opponent Colonel Jose Ascencio 'bnondoz,
Partido Accion -enovadorn (PAh) candidate, by 73,C68 votes, received a total
of 345,139 votes,, Osorio's party, the Partido Revolucionario tie Unifiencion
uenocratica (PRIM), gained a substantial majority of the deputies in the
Constituent Assembly by electing thirty-eight against fourteen deputies for
the PAR Q
3 ,,, Dr, ..eyna:ido Galindo Pohl., f ortaer member of the Council of Government and
now PTM. meabor of the Assembly from the Do.-)",rtraent of Sonsonate, was
elected to the Presidency of the Constituent Assembly at its second
organizational session,
4o Cor iiunist efforts to influence the wworkin}s of the Constituent Assembly are
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being, guided by Dry, Obeio 'Ielasrluez, PAI'. deputy t ?ora the Department of
Ahuachapan. iiuring the second week in 1 1ay Velrccluc~ hold discussions frith
student leaders and representatives of the Cor2ite de Reorganization Obrera
(C::to decide the bolt anti-.0sorio strstcr to be used, At this stn--e of
the campaign those -Toups favored a pros,;ram of passive resistance rather
than one of open opposition to Pii`JD owing to .PAR ? s weak num riczl position,
and the certain.:y that the PIWI) program would be forced through regardl..ess
of all opposition.
41,ien the inevitable "fascista" and '"ant. -democratic&t Constitution is enacted,
the Cor: -urists -feel that it will be easier for then,. to discredit the document
able to point to the fact that it was dravn up and voted into
5 they are
being by but one party,, the PRUD. To prepare opposition groups for the time
when Party objectives can be served more profitably by a direct attack on the
Osorio government, an intensified propaganda campaign is being readied for
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anion Hstudiazxtil the student publication. 't pith regard to the projected
ne- per program, it is reported that flr Romeo Fortin tagana, former
inister of 1conoriy, is advising the directors of the student pu ti on
on matters dealing with the editorial content of future issues.
Fortin 'agana has no previous record of leftist activity) and this
3.s a first indication that he is lending active support to the Communist--
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