Diario las Américas Newspaper, November 27, 1956, Page 10

Member Inter American Press Association For Liberty, Culture and Inter - American News for English- Speaking people Hemispheric Solidarity between the Americas MIAMI, SPRINGS, FLA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1966 G. A’ SAN ROMAN wn sea |US Sugar Needs for 1957 Venezuelan Oil' Ecuador Gives Guarantees “Tmia earsesz [Reviewed at Hearings in Production Hs 4) FO reign Capitals with | Sound, Constructive Ideas "Sie eee armarem ~~ Agriculture Department harp Increase Declares Ecuadorean Comptroller Doctor Victor Hugo Bayas- Valle For e@ better understanding 4th YEAR NUMBER 115 Cc, W. SMITH Vice President Office of Miam! Springs, Fla. on February & By James F. Cunningham {been unsuccessful. Sugar prices Minister of Mines and Petroleum, EDITORIAL WASHINGTON, (UP)— The po- have held above the government- | Edmundo Luongo Cabello, an- . ssibility of renewed shipping diffic-| desired level despite three of- nounced that the Venezuelan pro- MOSCU ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ulties will cloud the auditorium to-| ficial increases of the marketing | duction increased “in 100,000 bar. ——_—_—_————_————_—_——— ns day when Government and indus-|ceiling in one month’s time. rels daily on the last 30 days”) § try representatives gather to re- Since two-thirds of the nation’s}reaching a dail roductim of INVASION OF HUNGARY view the nation’s sugar needs for| sugar needs come from offshore Seaiqiing ear ms 1957 Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, The The Minist 1 aethatith * . ici The daylong hearings at the Agri- | Philippines, and various other coun- e Minister explained - that the H ; A * With remarkable impudence, Pravda, official ee eeeee a id ais |daleatspaitguticn (ara. caraanints | inceaikay via eae n sidden shuts aie Financial Obligations of the Government will be met in Methodic Manner, he Says pe s1: i i hich ti t | 1 of k difficulti | production in the measure permit- that the use of Soviet military forces in Hungary | termine the level at which to se| |newal of doc ifficulties next | P! By FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Editor, THE AMERICAS DAILY | newspaper in Russia, affirms in recent editorial | nually to help the government de-| be concerned over the possible re-| result of a “gradual expansion of | . | | 4 = was necessary to prevent the triumph of the revolu-| ted by circumstances. the official mainland sugar market- | spring. tion. In Russia the voice of any newspaper may be considered as ofticial, because, under the yoke of that dictatorship, there is no free press, there are no other newspapers than those sponsored and But, within that chained press, which is published only to glorify the men in the Kremlin, there are ranks, and Pravda has the highest position, because it is the most characterized spokesman of the Soviet Government. guided by the regime. ing ceiling for the following year. | The government is charged un- | der the Sugar Act with fixing that ceiling at a level which will gua- | tantee adequate sugar to users and | fair prices to growers. | The East Coast Shipping Strike {plus supply dislocations, recently drove raw sugar prices well above the level at which the Government has attempted to keep them in re- cent years. 2 | With shipping disrupted, the Go- vernment’s usually effective me- Therefore, the statement made by Pravda should | thods for curbing a price rise have be considered as the official voice of the regime; | and that voice admits, without blushing, without the slightest fear of condemnation from all the countries on earth, that Russian troops, with the terrible fire of their arms, placed at the service of a imperialist and locally, annihilating, subjugated the Hungarian patriots | who, with heroism worthy of their cause, struggled | for liberty and succeeded in overthrowing the} puppet government which was directed in Moscow| from the towers of the dreaded Kremlin. The fact that Russia, when it serves her in- terests, disregards diplomatic formulas, the precepts of international law and justice, as well as the rules imposed by civilization, is a very serious danger) confronting humanity regarding the maintenance system, internationally of world peace. This has been always, since the Russian problem KNOW THY NEIGHBOR By ANTONIO RUIZ COLOMBIA — Early in 1781, in various towns of the Province of Socorro, Santander, there were hostile demonstrations against the Spanish authorities for eco- nomic reasons, such as the re-es- tablishment of taxes. Francis- co Berbeo, Manuela Beltran, and José Delgadillo were the first leaders of these move ments, which were then organiz- ed and led by José Antonio Ga- in the post-war came up, the greater risk that the |!# !sidro Molina, Lorenzo Alean- Western Nations, specially the United States, must have in mind in their negotiations with the Moscow | |from the capital. They were cap- Government. No agreement has been ever honored by the, eommunists. The honor word given by the new Czars in Moscow means nothing when the im- tuz, and Manuel Ortiz, who suc- ceeded in advancing their troops’ to the city of Zipaquiré, 30 miles tured by the Spanish authorities, who prosecuted them, and they all perished at the gallows. On November 11, 1809, the city of Cartagena, Spanish stronghold perialistic interests of Russia are to be defended. |in the Americas, declared its in- On the other hand the democratic nations go as far as sacrifice to maintain in the Organization of the United Nations, or in any other field, the moral prestige of their commitments. The struggle is one sided and Russia has, though in ways incompatible with political moral, great advantage, tabulated in terms of reality, of the reality which is based on force and arbitrariness. CHARTER OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES ARTICLE 92% The seat of the Pan American Union is the city of Washington, CHAPTER XIV THE SPECIALIZED CONFERENCES ARTICLE 93 The Specialized Conferences shall meet to deal with special tech- dependence of the Spanish Crown. On July 4, 1810, there was an upris- ing in Pamplona, Norte de Santan- der, and on the 10th. of the same month, another in Socorro, San- tander, followed by another one on the 20th., in Santa Fe de Bogo- ta. Because of the intellectual cali- ber of its leaders and because it happened in the capital city of the Viceroyalty, this last movement was the originator of the separatist movement from Spain. which real- ly succeeded. A declaration of in- dependence was prepared the same day and signed by the most prominent citizens of the capital. Later, several small congresses met in Bogota and Ibagué to ratify the declaration of independence. The first Republic thus organiz- ed was called Patria Boba, The Spanish Government sent fresh troops to repress the movement, and succeeded in taking the capital on May 6, 1816, thus beginning a period of reprisals known as the Period of Terror, during which the Spaniards Francisco Montalvo, |Pablo Morillo and Juan Samano nical matters or to develop specific aspects of inter-Ameriean co-| enforced cruel measures of reprisal operation, when it is so decided by the Inter-American Conference or the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs; when inter-American agreements so provide; or when the Council of the Organization considers it necessary, either on its own initiative or at the request of one of its organs or of one of the Specialized Or- ganizations. ARTICLE 94 The program and regulations of the Specialized Conferences shall be prepared by the organs of the Council of the Organization or by the Specialized Organizations concerned; they shall be submitted to the Member Governments for consideration and transmitted to the Gouncil for its information. CHAPTER XV THE SPECIALIZED ORGANIZATIONS ARTICLE 95 For the purposes of the present Charter, Inter-American Special- ized Organizations are the intergovernmental organizations established by multilateral agreements and having specific functions with respect to technical matters of common interest to the American States, ARTICLE 96 The Council shall, for the purposes stated in Article 53, maintain a register of the Organizations that fulfill the conditions set forth in the foregoing Article, ARTICLE 97 The Specialized Organizations shall enjoy the fullest technical autonomy and shall take into account the recommendations of the Council, in conformity with the provisions of the present Charter. (To Be Continued) and shot the leading men of the times, among them the learned Francisco José de Caldas, the distinguished attorney Joaquin Ca- macho, Camilo Torres, and many others in Santa Fe, as well as José Maria Garcia de Toledo and a hun- dred others in Cartagena and other cities. Among them was a woman, Policarpa Salavarrieta. One of the most prominent and most active persons in the inde- pendence movement was Antonio Narifio, of Santa Fe de Bogota, who was a brilliant writer and, in 1794, translated printed and dis- tributed The Rights of Man from son persecuted and jailed several times by the Spaniards. He also took active part, as a General, in important combats. During the period following the declaration of independence, se- veral armies were organized by the patriots of Colombia, who most of the time were working in coopera- tion with similar movements in Venezuela. The most outstanding leaders then were the Liberator, Simén Bolivar, General Francisco de Paula Santander, and captains Atanasio Girardot, Antonio Sou- blette and Antonio Ricaurte, who heroically gave his life by blowing up an ammunition deposit of which he was in charge, after he ordered all the soldiers to get away from fhe place. He was a Colombian, but his supreme sacrifice was made in Venezuela, at San Mateo, the 1 They point out that such a sys- the French and was, for that rea-| The Government has halted the dock strike by securing an injune- tion which would require that the longshoremen return to their jobs. But such an injunction would assure only 80 days of moratorium on the strike. If the union and the shippers fail to come to an acreement during that period, the | strike could resume. The 80 days would end in Fe- |ruary, leaving open the possibili- |ty that the docks might be shut | down again at the very time when Caribbean sugar producers, such as Puerto Rico and Cuba, usually make their heaviest shipments to |the mainland. | These and new problems result- | | ing from amendments to the Sugar | Act will confront the industry and government at today’s hearings. Lawrence Myers, director of the Department’s Sugar Branch, is scheduled to preside at the hear- ings. Among those testifying will be spokesmen for the mainland refiners, the industrial users, la- bor unions, and producers of sugar in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philip- pines, Hawaii, and the mainland United States. Rumors have circulated that the domestic sugarbeet industry may | propose a system of “port-quotas” | at the hearings. Such a system would mean res- | triction on the quantity of sugar a given offshore quota area could land at any given port. Beet men have declined to con- firm that they contemplate such a proposal, Puerto Rican and Cu- ban sugarmen have promised to fight it vigorously if it is made. tem would discriminate against them in that it would impose no controls on marketing channels for mainland- produced sugar — would place offshore marketing on a dif- ferent basis from mainland mark- He added that Venezuela’s in- terest is “to place her oil on long term sales and not sporadically, as demonstrated by the five, seven and ten years terms contracts.” Asked if, when the Suez crisis is over, Venezuela will go back to normal production figures, the Minister answered negatively, de- claring that the increase “obeys to strict technical norms and never to fluctuations of the market, due to passing causes, even though they may seem to be serious”. Luongo pointed out that the Suez situation has altered the prices of oil in general and the heavy types | will produce royalties of about 3,-/ 000,000 Bolivares more per month | to Venezuela. AMBASSADOR VICCHI GOES TO ARGENTINA WASHINGTON (UP)—Argentine | Ambassador Adolfo Vicchi left by plane for a visit to his country. The Ambssador told the United Press there was no special reason for his visit, He said it was “to! discuss routine business”. He will| return to Washington on December | 12th. Alberto Benegas Lynch, Minister- Counsellor, will act por the Ambas- sador in his absence. Sefiora Vicchy did not accompany the Ambassador, PROMINENT JURIST DIES IN URUGUAY MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov 26 (UP)—Dr. Alberto Guani, former} vice president and foreign minister of Uruguay and noted interna- tional jurist, died last night after | Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, editor of DOCTOR BAYAS-VALLE EDITOR TESTIFIES AT SOMOZA‘S MURDER HEARING IN MANAGUA | MANAGUA, Nov. 26—(UP) — “La Prensa” declared at the mili- tary Tribunal investigating the as- sassination of President Anastasio Somoza, that he had knowledge of a revolutionary movement against the government of Nicaragua in | El Salvador, but that he did not denounce it as he considers that | delation is inmoral. The prosecutor asked him questions regarding the U. S. journalist Jules Dubois, Pres- ident of the Freedom of the Press Committee of the Inter Ame- | rican Press Association. He was asked if Dubois did visit him when he came to Managua, 22 hours after the attemtp against Somoza’s life; if he told Dubois about the move- ment being prepared and if he gave him a check, To all these questions Chamorro answered negatively. Juan Calderén, who was not otherwise identified, told the mili- tary board of inquiry that he drill- ed holes in the noses of the bullets used by Rigoberto Pérez Lépez and filled them with poison. Calderén did not identify the poison he used, and it was not cer- ettings, CARACAS, Venezuela —(UP)— President Marcos Pérez Jiménez will inaugurate more than 1,000 public works projects on Dec. 2, it was announced today. It will be the fourth consecutive time that Venezuela has dedicated over 1,000 new projects annually. To date the government has spent $1.5 billions on new roads, hous- ing, hospitals, schools, irrigation and other works. The vast programs are financed with royalties from Venezuela’s huge oil production. Among the projects to be de- dicated formally will be the “Little Suez,” a canal cut across a sand bar between Lake Maracaibo and the Caribbean, The canal, costing about $36 million, is already finished and the largest ocean going tankers can sail right up to the Maracaibo stor- age depots where they load an aver- HEMISPHERIC EVENTS DESCRIBES THE NEW BRAZILIAN CAPITAL WASHINGTON —(UP)— Dr. Hollister Kent, former manager of Donald J. Belcher and Associates office in Brazil, described here to approximately 200 persons what country home and hacienda of the Bolivar family. Finally, Bolivar led his armies across the Andes, in one of the most difficult and dangerous marches in history, and joined for- ces with General Santander, on the Colombian side of the mountain range. On August 7, 1819, at the Bridge of Boyaca, not far from Tunja, today capital of the Depart- ment of Boyaca, the combinéd pa- triot armies defeated the Spaniards in the Battle of Boyac4, which sealed Colombian independence. Spanish Version Page 3 a long illness. He was 79. Pérez Jiménez to Inaugurate Over a Thousand Public Works Projects age of 1.5 million barrels of oil daily to be taken directly to the refineries, from Lake Maracaibo’s 3,000 oil wells. Prior to the opening of the} Canal. Smaller tankers, capable of negotiating the shallow passage} into Lake Maracaibo, carried the crude to the islands of Curacao and Aruba where it was transfer- red to larger tankers. Other important work to be de- dicated is Venezuela’s last link of the Pan American Highway, a 600- mile paved stretch running from Caracas to the Colombian border, The new facility will open a vast agriculturally rich area where hun- dreds of settlers have already es- tablished farms and cattle ranches. The Guérico Dam, intended to irrigate 275,000 acres of land, will be dedicated in the heart of Vene- zuela’s llanos or plains. The earthen dam is nine miles long. the future Capital City of Brazil would look like. Kent was hired by the Brazilian Government to make aerial surveys of the proposed new capital, and he also served as city planning consultant to the Brazilian Govern- mental Commission for the new Capital City. By means of maps, charts, photo- graphs, and colored slides. Kent showed his audience at the Dept. of Interior the techniques used and methods employed in picking the new city. He said the Brazilian Congress had recently named the city-to-be “Brasilia”, The lecture was sponsored by Brazilian Am- bassador to the United States Er- nani do Amaral Peixoto, with the cooperation of the Pan American tain how much of a part it played in Somoza’s death. It will store the waters that fall abundantly during the rain season and which were wasted previously, leaving only arid grassless plains in the summer, The Guérico pro- ject cost more than $100 million. In Caracas, 23 “baby skyscrap- ers” will be dedicated. They are the government's version of slum clearance. Each apartment house is 15 stories high. Rents range from $30 to $60 monthly. More than $40 million were invested in hous- ing projects throughout Venezuela this year. The projects to be dedicated on Dec. 2 cost a total of $476,500,000. This includes $71 million for roads; $43 million for low cost housing; $16 million for schools; $43 mil- lion for sewers and water supply; $23 million for dredging and ship canals; $100 million for irrigation As a complement to the oppor- tune and trascendental statements | made by the President of Ecuador to THE AMERICAS DAILY, which we published last Sunday, we pub-| lish now an interview with the | Compptroller General of Ecuador, Dr. Victor Hugo Bayas-Valle. “We are engaged in strengthen- ing the national economy and maintain a climate of order and guarantees,” is the first statement made by Comptroller Bayas-Valle, referring to the general policies of the Government. Dr. Bayas-Valle represents, we may say, joviality in the regime. He is a man of very cordial man- ner and knows how to inspire con- fidence and respect fromthose with whom he speaks, We visited him for an interview which we arranged through two fine friends and distinguished officials, Archi- tect Sixto Duran-Ballén ‘and Mr. Luis Gémez-Izquierdo, Minister and Under Secretary of Public Works, respectively, and we were accom- panied by another old friend, Mr. | Manuel Correa, Director of Civil | Aviation. The Office of the Comptroller General of the Nation exercises, within the vigorous Ecuadorean de- mocracy, a decisive function, both in reference to internal matters and foreign affairs, regarding in- ternational credits. The Export-Im- port Bank and the Bank of Re- construction and Development, for example, are institutions which find in the Office of the Comp- troller a very useful organization which maintains an adequate equilibrium that is a guarantee for those institutions and for the Government of the Republic. “The given word of the Government will always be as sound as apublic do- cument signed with all the cere- monies,” says the Comptroller, with the clear purpose of giving emphasis to the honesty and sobrie- ty of the Administration. As a just desire of the citizen — says Bayas Valle — the Ecuador- ean aspiration is that the concept of family unity be fortified in the State organisms. For that purpose we will maintain, in the Comptrol- ler Office, an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect with the pub- lie, trust and respect with charac- teristics of a family, so these of- ficial dependences will be consider- ed by the Ecuadoreans as their own home, where, with vigilant zeal their interests are administered. And the Ecuadorean government and people wish to extend that family spirit as cordial embrace, to all the brother countries of the Americas, that, in reality, con- stitute the great continental family, The outstanding official knows that, within the system of adminis- trative controls of the State, the of- fice ke directs fulfills a very high mission, regarding the task of in- spiring public confidence in the fiscal state of the Republic, which has, no doubt, repercussions in the field ef the national economy. “The financial obligations of the Govern- ment, both national and foreign, will be attended to in a methodic and austere manner,” states with a high sense of responsibility the young Comptroller. Dr. Victor Hugo Bayas-Valle is an enthusiast promoter of the Pan-Americanist ideal. He has ex- pressed to us his desire of visiting other. countries of the Hemisphere with the purpose of observing sy- stems that could offer formulas adaptable to the Ecuadorean sy- stem and convenience. Due to the credit relations of Ecuador with the United States, he has particular interest in visiting Washington, where the offices of the Export- Import Bank and of the Interna- tional Bank for Reconstruction and Development are located. In the course of his amen- able and interesting conversation, Comptroller Bayas-Valle stressed the guarantees that the foreign capital, which comes with sound constructive purposes, has in his country. The time of the Head of an Of- fice of the Government, as the Of, fice of the Comptroller, is extreme- ly crowded so, after the brief inter- view, we bid our leave from the honest official and outstanding Pro- fessor who has been, for several years, engaged in struggling with generous vehemence for the triumph of the Quito’s Catholic University, outstanding center of culture to which foundation he contributed as citizen and as pro; fessional. When he, answering our questioning, spoke to us about his eagerness in favor of the Universi- ty, he told us of his ideas regard- ing a sound interchange of stu- dents between the Catholic Uni- versities of the United States and Quito, as well as the interchange of books to strengthen the Libra- ries with sound ideological orientae tion which, he says, forms part of the genuine crusade against com- munism. WASHINGTON — The World Bank has made a loan of $1.6 mil- lion for electric power develop- ment in Nicaragua, which will sup- plement a loan of $7.1 million made in July 1955 to finance the foreign exchange costs of con- structing a 30,000-kilowatt thermal power plant and expansion of the distribution system in Managua, and transmission lines to 15 out- lying towns. and agriculture; $47 million for ci- ty improvements, Latin American News in Brief GUATEMALA RESUMES TRADE WITH GERMANY GUATEMALA CITY, —(UP)— All measures restricting trade be- tween Germany and Guatemala were repealed today. The action, announced by the Foreign Ministry, was the result of the ending of the state of war between the two countries, a step approved by Congress. An official statement said the government hoped the step would result in increased German-Guate- malan trade. NEW MINISTER TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras )UP) —The Military Government Junta has appointed Rogelio Martinez Agustinus as Labor Minister, TEMPER, . .TEMPER! MEXICO CITY —(UP)— In- Union, furiated because his bicycle wheel Grace National Bank of New was bent after he bowled over three pedestrians, an unidentified cyclist whipped out his pistoal and gravely wounded one of the three as he lay sprawled in the gutter. HONDURAS TO REDUCE OFFICIAL PERSONNEL TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — (UP)— The Military Government Junta announced that it will re- duce the personnel of government offices and cut down in all govern- ment purchases in an effort to erase a $4 million treasury deficit inherited from the previous admin- istration. An official communique said the deposed government of Chief of State Julio Lozano squandered $2 Million during August and Septem- ber, the last two months it was in BANK LOAN TO INCREASE ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION IN NICARAGUA York is participating in the loan, without the World Bank’s guaran- tee, to the extent of $101,000, representing the first two maturi- ties faling due in October 1959 and April 1960. The loan was made to the “Em- presa Nacional de Luz y Fuerza” of Managua and is guaranteed by the Republic of Nicaragua. Empre- sa is an autonomous government corporation which supplies. pow- er to the Managua area. The loan is for a term of 15 years ‘and bears interest of 4 3-4 per cent includ- ing the 1 per cent commission charged by the Bank. Amortization will begin October 1, 1959. This loan was made to cover the additional foreign exchange need- ed for the Managua power project, The total cost of the project will be approximately the same as had been originally estimated — $10.6 million — but after the award of contracts for equipment and con- struction, it was found that the foreign exchange component was Jarger than had been estimatéd. Construction of the foundations for the power plant and building started in May 1956. The first 1 000-kilowatt unit should be ready for commercial operation in March 1958, and the second 15,000-kilo- watt unit five months later. The Managua distribution system is scheduled for completion before the end of 1957, and the transmis- sion lines by February 1958. When completed, the project .will. doub- le electric |generating capacity in Nicaragua and help to meet the demand for power in the Managua and Pacific coastal plain areas, the most populous and productive power, in the country.