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4 foot XeAel2e November 52-6 - page three e c to be granted or refused to the previous owners of tin mines, The outcome of this, still open question, will show whétéhtr the moderate nationalists or whether the Labor Unions and their communistic | packers are the stronger element within the Movimiento REXNBXKBÍUNEKÉO Nacional Revolucionarios am a sm | Chile and Equador. The last dispatch sent on these countries in June spoke of the forthcoming elections and of the rising chances for the nationalist groupse Since then these predictions have become truée The presidential elections have brought into power two strong mens Carlos Ibafiez del Campo in Chile and and Velaseo Ibarra, in Bevadore s The ebctions in Chile gave Senator Carlos Ibanez - the head of the nationalist agrarian erom - 47% of all the votes. He thus defeated his three opponents: Arturo Matte (liberal), Pedro Enrique Alfonso (redical) and Salvador Allende (extreme left). Sine elections in Chile are truly democratic and honest, this vote expressed povular feelings. Chileans, dissatisfied with the extemsmelj difficult e@@onoric situation fi their country, blamed the previous regime (President Videlaj a strong friend of the USA) for prevailing conditions. In reaction, they svpvorted the candidate whose ideas were closest to Peron and the other Latin-American nationalist. This anti-anglo-saxon popvlar attitude wes expressed openly in the | manifestations that ximresctermt turned against some of the foreign | diplomats at the occasion of a public gathering, shortly before the — elections. It showed that the many supporters of the Ibanez regime | come from the ranks of the true nationalists as well as from all the dissatisfied elements within tre different political parties. The new Ecuador President, Dr.Velasco Tharra, had been in this highest position before, Removed by the Army, he lived for five years in Argentina and returned to his country only a few weeks Before the elections, A declared friend of President Peron, Jose Maria Velesco Ibarra presented himself as indenendent candidate; but was officially becked by the “Parti@o Nacional de Accion Revolucionaria",. This is a fascist nationalist organization, grouping mostly farmers and low=fincome workers, Since he entered office, Velasco Ibarra, by a thorough purge, has cleaned out the army of his enemies, replacing them by friends cf his regime. This move has greatly strengthened his positions. Our observers feel that - althoveh tensions have not disapreared and inciderts still ocevr = the President has the sitnatic now in hands, Columbia and Venezuela, Previous dispatches have snoken of the most important conference held by communist leaders in Guatelmala city. Some of their major déeisions were rehated to a new strategy to be established for Central America end for the neighboring South American countries of Colimbia and Venezuela. It is interesting to note that, sinee this earlier decision, undermining movements have been reported from different spots in the Caribbean ares, As far as Columbia and Venezuela are concerned, the inner situation is rapidly tr
