Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
ELECTIONS |MPEND
IN SOUTH AMERICA
Voters in Revolt Torn Ma
tons to Pass on Issues
During 1881.

Voters Of number of South Amer
lean republics, some Of which are COM
plotting year marked by revolt and
coupS d'etat, will seek settlement OF
their economic difficulties at the polls in
1881. Leaders in these countries are
looking to the United States to aid in
stabilizing economic conditions.
They believe that improvement of
financial conditions in this country will
create stimulation of industry and in
crease the importation of raw materials,
which will give Latin America an in
creased market outlet and improve con-
ditions there.
The more optimistic South American
onc1alS cite American economic history
to show that no financial crisis in this
country has lasted more than Is months.
Economic Status Same.
Meanwhile, Commerce Department
statistics show the new governments in
seven Latin American States which re-
VOTED in 1880 face virtually the same
economic conditions which disturbed
their predecessors, plus the costs of
revolution.
Spain-the mother country of the
Latin Americas, and rated as econom-
ically above the average European
countryside faces a worldwide eco
stamping out revolution.
First of the Latin American countries
to resort to armed uprising in 1880, the
inland nation of Bolivia will lead the
procession to the ballot box. Presi-
dental elections have been announced
for early January.
New Elections Promised.
Peru, Argentina, and Brazil, which
kwnaFioV4nad cI1caarsf1rl roxrolfp NOV fol-
low Bolivia to the polls during the COM
ing year. Each is governed by the men
whose military proweSs drove elected
predecessors from office. They have
promised to call for new elections as
soon as reorganization work is suff1-
GENTLY advanced.
Somewhat more complex is the
problem of elections in Guatemala, a
country added last week to the list of
nations in which 1905 economic evo-
luton spelled revolution.
Gen. Manuel Orellana, elected by the
Assembly after coup d'etat, holds Of
flce as presidential designate until Pres
1dent Lazaro Chacon, who retired with
. cerebral hemorrhage, is able to resume
his duties or becomes definitely incapac-
itated-
Chile has Futile Revolt.
In Chile President Carlos Ibanez was
called upon to stamp out an abortive
revolutionary attempt at the Concep-
cion garrison, shortly after President
Hipolito Irigoyen'S government was
overthrown in Argentina. Recently he
passed unScathed through an attempt
to assassinate him.
Faced with growing resentment
against his stringent economy program,
President Isidoro Ayora of Ecuador re-
signed in Midsummer. Popular demand
took q new surge and he was forced
back into Office.
BY virtue of scattered interior political
disturbances and reverberations against
the so-called "Gomsz regime" Venezuela
was generally credited with experiencing
revolutionary tremors.
Venezuela Pays Debt.
Offsetting this popular conception was
the growing feeling Of assurance in
Venezuelan solidarity arising from the
widely proclaimed fact that Venezuela
last Summer liquidated her foreign
obligations and. compared to sister
American nations. became the economic
phenomenon of 1890.
Those Latin American countries
which approach the new year without
having shown noteworthy trace of in
ternal revolt are Mexico, Colombia,
Uruguay, FL Salvador, Panama, Mica
ragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and
Paraguay.