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Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
EDIToRIA
MIAMI SCORES A SUCCESS

With the Festival of the Americas, which ended last
Sunday, the City of Miami scored a cultural success OF
continental repercussions, linking her name to many acts OF
spiritual significance.
The great efforts of municipal authorities and all those
in the organizing committee, as well as those who supported
them, made possible the presentation of all the programs
scheduled for the ten days of the %grandiOSe festival. OF
course, to this ScucceSS also contributed the decisive en-
cOuragement of all the countries which sent excellent
delegations, headed by Queens of great beauty, who brought
to Miami a message of grace and good will from all Latin
American women. They were able to win applause and
admiration of all those who saw them in the parade through
the Main street of the city, and in the elegant gatherings
and receptions, where they added an outstanding touch
of physical beauty and spiritual charm.
The different Latin American delegations, with their
excellent musical and artistic ensembles, gave the Festival
splendid color, and realized, to the magic incarnation of
cultural motives, an i%nSuperable mission of Impeachment
among the peoples of Latin America and the United States,
the latter represented by the community of Miami.
In this brief editorial note, THE AMERICAS DAILY
reiterates its congratulations to all persons, both national
and foreign, who made possible these ten days of great
enthusiasm and cultural display, and in particular it pays
homage of admiration to the Queen of the Festival, Miss
Mercedes BaquerO, of Colombia, to the Queens of all those
countries represented at the Festival, all of whom formed
a group of unusual beauty, and to all the groups that with
their art and music saturated the atmosphere with grace,
making of the Festival of the Americas a delightful holiday
for the spirit, as they promoted continental fraternity.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Rood Federation 10
Meet in Mexico

WASHINGTON. CUPID. - The
international Road Federation an.
nounced that traffic experts of
more than SO countries will attend
the third conference of the orga-
nization, which will be held in
Mexico October 1851.
He added motions on finance,
equipment traffic engineering,
soil sterilization, electronic inspec-
lions, etc. will be submitted.
Among the works for discussions
in the agenda are one of Roberto
Parker, Savadorean Public Works
Minister: National System of Roads,
and that Of Jose March, Mexico's
Road Director: Training of Dri-
vers and Mechanics.
Ruis Confines, Mexican president,
will welcome the delegates at the
Arts Palace October &c.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26

by the Columbia University Club
of this city.
The Ambassador emphasized
that his country is one of the most
sincere friends the United States
has in South America, and after
the contract was signed, he add
ed "the United States is now
realizing that Ecuador although
small in size is rich in undevelop-
ed resources of oil and minerals,
and since the visit of Vice-Presi-
dent Nixon many of its business
men are learning Of the favorable
conditions my country offers;
guarantee, taxes and royalties. We
believe in Ecuador that this is the
first step of our development
and industrial expansion program.
"We all have seer what hap
pened in Venezuela with the oil
industry and we are right to say
we hope this development will be
repeated in Ecuador"
The luncheon was presided by
Andrew B. Shea, president of Pa
nagra. Jose A. Corse, Ecuadorean
ambassador at the United Nations,
and Eduardo Tamayo, General
Consul at New York, also attend
ed.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
NORA WARNS ABOUT SERIOUS
Crisis IN LATIN AMERICA

Previously, the Secretary Gen
eral of the Organization of Ameri-
can States, DR.. Jose A. Mora,
warned that unless the crisis on
prices of raw materials is solved,
Latin America will face an eco.
nomic crisis that will sweep away
all the economic progress achiev-
ed after World War ii.
He added tina this tendency has
already began In some countries,
in which conditions are rapidly
getting worse. He was also speak
ing before the Chamber of Com
merce of the Americas in this ci-
ty.
He said that "the problem Of
market fluctuations in raw mater
ials cannot be solved by the ex-
porting countries alone, and the
solution of the problem will not
be easy" but at the same time he
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
y Latin America Las" Policy Replaced
Good Neighbor Policy Smathers Says
DR.. MORA WARNS ABOUT A SERIOUS
CRISIS LATIN AMERICA IS FACING
Sound Opinions Expressed at Sessions of
Chamber Of Commerce of the Americas Here

declared that the idea is develop
ing rapidly of a regional eco
nomic community for the Ameri-
can Hemisphere.
sit is very encouraging" he said
'to see the interest important cir
cles of this country are showing in
the study of the economic pro-
blems of their neighbors."
1t is possible that Mora was re-
ferring to US. efforts to contri-
butte to the solution of coffee, lead
and zine problems.
He pointed out that there had
been sharp declines in the prices
of copper, lead, zinc, coffee, cotton
sugar and wool. To this, he added,
must be added a general de-
terioration of trade conditions in
the Latin American countries.
"While the price of their export
products has declined" he observ-
ed, 'the price of what they i'm
port has been maintained or has
increased. This has had an import
ant effect in the capacity for i'm
portation of the zone"
He declared Latin America
must increase her trade in order
to achieve development, and add
ed:
"It is evident that the possibili-
ties for Latin America to achieve
a greater economic development
than in the past depend to GER
tain extent of the degree in which
she can increase her exports"
Mora insisted that it is impera.
tive that industrial countries adopt
measures that may interfere with
the advantage that in competition
the underdeveloped countries have
in their favor, and affirmed:
even more imperative is to
adopt an attitude toward a posi-
tive policy that at the end elimin.
ates completely all restrictions on
trade in raw materials"
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Cuban Consul Asks
Political Asylum

Rene Dechard, a veteran Cuban
diplomat, today asked for poll
tical asylum so he and his family
would not have to face the secret
police of Havana.
Dechard, so, and his wife told
immigration authorities Tuesday
a story of persecution by the Sc
cret police. They said they were
taken from their Havana home
about midnight Feb. Is and jailed
for four days. Dechard said during
that time he was beaten and
denied food and water. His wife
said she was told her husband
had been shot after he was led
away.
The Dechards said they were
released when the police failed
to prove anything against them,
Dechard was later given another
foreign assignment
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Bandits Attuck
two Buses, Kill
Al Persons in
ToIima, Colombia

BOGOTA, June rs (UPD- For
ty one persons we're killed in diff
-ferent attacks by groups of ban
dts since last Sunday, and twenty
we're seriously wounded, while eff
forts have been doubled to pacify
the Department of Tolima, scene
of the bloodiest of these attacks.
There, 81 persons were assas-
sinated and 20 seriously wounded,
when a group estimated in so
persons intercepted two buses in a
highway, attacking the passengers
with guns and machetes. The at
tackers are being pursued by arm
ed forces sent from Ibague, capital
of the Department, as soon as e
ports of the attack reached that
city. There, Governor Manuel Co.
ronado and ex-President Dario
Echandia are engaged in efforts to
eliminate violence.
The head of the National Po-
lice announced that 500 more men
were sent to Tolima, to replace
those in Tolima, who will come
here for special instruction cour-
seS.
The attack on the two buses is
the one which has cost more lives
in the last two weeks, after in
crease of action to subdue the
bandits and the reaching of an
agreement between the two parties
on efforts to pacify the country.
Ex-President Echandia, a liberal,
said that the attack was not for
political motives and that among
the victims there were both >con-
sentative and liberal farm work
ers, who were robbed of all they
had in the buses with them.
In Quindio, the principal coffee
region of the country, two more
persons were killed by bandits.
Quindio and Tolima are the zones
where violence has been more in
tense in the last few months.
In Cauca Department, however,
nine more persons were assassinat-
ed. There had been no violence in
'Cauca for several months.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
HEMISPHERE EVENTS
BraziIion Envoy
Leaves for Rio
BRAZILIAN ENVOY

BRAZILIAN ENVOY Frances
NEW YORK CUPID Ernani do
Amaral Peixoto, Brazilian Ambas-
sador, left for Rio de Janeiro and
repeated he knows nothing about
the rumor that he will succeed Jo-
Sc Carlos de Macedo as foreign
minister.
Il know nothing about that" the
diplomat said.
He said histrip was only with
the purpose to see president JUS
celino Kubitschek in connection
with his letter to Eisenhower,
about hemisphere cooperation. He
added that Kubitschek in his last
Fridays message he did not pro
pose "a Marshall PLAN for Latin
America but what is necessary to
do on both sides"
The visit Of Peixoto to Rio will
concide with that of Hawthorne
Adrey, director of the Export-Im'
port Bank, who left for Brazil to
study the possible financial aid to
this country. Peixoto did not men
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
BOLIVIAN RAILROAD


WASHINGTON - The Yacuiba
Santa Cruz Railroad, which con-
ects with the General Belgrano
Railroad IN Argentina at the Bo.
livian-Argentine border, has been
inaugurated although not complet.
ed.
Bridges over the Parapeti, Rio
Grande and Florida Rivers are
lackins, and work is unfinished on
freign; and passenger stations at
principal stops workshops, and
telegraph lines.
Service has, however, been CIV
en- for some time on the Yacuiba-
Boyulbe portion of the railroad
- about 200 kilcmeters - and it
is planned to extend this service
to the Boyuibe-Rio Grande por-
ton soon = about ~ kilometers
- with transhipment at the Para
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Peru's Minister
of War in Visit
to U. S. A. Boses

WASHINGTON. CUPID. = Gen.
eral Alexandra Cuadra, Peru's War
Minister, arrived here for a four
days visit to the military installa-
lions of the United States, by in
vitation of WILDER Bruecker, Sc
cretary of the Army.
Fernando Berckemeyer and Juan
Bautista de Lavalle, Peruvian am.
bassadors to the White House and
the Organization of the American
States, respectively, were among
those who received General Qua
dra at the military airport.
Shortly after his arrival, the
General was driven to Fort Myer,
Virginia, were he received the Of
ficial salute.
Later, Cuadra visited Brucker in
the Pentagon Cd enfese Depart
ment) where he was invested with
the Legion of Merit awar5 in the
degree of Commander. This award
was in reward to his contribution
to Inter American solidarity
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
TEMPERATURE
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A Defender Of Democracy
In Our Continent

In the Congress of the United
States. the voice of Representa-
tive Charles o. Porter, of Oregon,
has grown in extraordinary i'm
portance for continental democ-
racy, because of his indefatigable
theological campaigns in favor of
a SOLITARY freedom in the Amer
icas.
The attitude of Congressman
Porter has found among all the
peoples of the Latin American
countries a warm reception, be-
cause it represents a ray Of
hope for better orientation of
the United States, in the sense
that this great North American
country may sincerely encourage
the proper functioning OF, CONT
mental democracy.
The name and the achieve.
ments of Porter are very well
known in Latin America, and
among the people, in circles
where they pay tribute to free
dom, there is a great feeling
of appreciation and admiration
for the courageous congressman.
Porter is closely identified
with the spirit of democracy,
with his people, and with all the
peoples of the Latin American
countries.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
BY UNITED PRESS
INTERNATIONAL

Sen. George Smathers said
yesterday it is imperative that the
United States changes its "St. Vitus
dance trade policy toward Latin
America.
He said US. neglect of Latin
nations has left them bitter and
disappointed, and the Soviet trade
commissars have stepped into the
void with their temptations and
their promises"
He called this "the Trojan horse
technique. . going on under the
unwatchful eyes of the United
States State Department"
The Florida Democrat told the
Chamber of Commerce of the
Americas that the flare-up on Vice
President Nixon's recent tour was
not entirely the work of Commun-
lists. He said Nixon's visit was "a
match dropped onto a pile of tind-
er. Communism does not spout
where the ground is barren of dis
content" he added.
Smathers charged that Ameri-
cas- historic good neighbor policy
has been replaced by a policy of
Latin America last or Latin Anne
RIGA least, and the State Depart
ments has no one with the force,
the imagination or the courage to
change directions.
He called for a program Of eco
nomic aid and development loans
to Latin America. He said this
'~'inoculate the people against
Communism by proving to them
they can do better"
Smathers also urged develop
ment of a regional trading area
among the Americas, increase in
student exchange between the U.
S. and Latin America, and crea.
ton of a Latin American regional
bank.
He warned against overempha
sis on military aid to Latin Anne.
RIGA. He said this works 'to sub.
sidize and reinforce the power Of
ruling cliques and juntas which
are hated passionately by the PEG.
pie whom they Cypress"
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Know thy
Neighbor
q
By ANTONIO RUIZ

URUGUAY - European paint
ers living in Montevideo dominat-
ed Uruguayan art during the first
half of the 10th. century. Juan
Manuel Blanes was the gigantic
figure of the period of re-birth,
during the second half of the
century, An extreme realist, Bla-
mes painted %naturalistic portraits
and solid illustrations of local his
tory. The Juan Manuel Blanes"
Municipal Museum of Fine Arts
in the capital is but one of the
many tributes paid him by his
countrymen. Like him, his con-
temporaries Eduardo Carbajal,
Diogenes Hequet, and Domingo La
porte, painted in ~naturalistic style.
During the ~upheaval of the early
29th. century, when traditional
artistic values WERE being chal-
lenged by new modes of thought
and expression, there arose the
somewhat mystical artist Rafael
Barradas (~1890-1929). He spent
many years in Europe, watching
cubism, futurism, Superfrealism,
and constructivism spring-up in
France he absorbed post-impres-
sionism. "reminiscences of Uru-
quay, too, are evident in some of
his forceful pen and ink sketches,
brilliant distractions in oil and
charming port scenes, all of them
vivid documents of modern trend
art.
One of the most important art
lists of all Latin America was Pc
dro Figari (1861-1938), a native of
Montevideo. His hundreds of re-
markable paintings, done in the
poSt-impressionist style of Bon
nard and WILLARD, were construct
ed in color. His best pictures de-
pict, perhaps better than those Of
Blanes do, the life of the Rosas
era and the picturesque customs
nos gone forever from Montevi-
deo's social life.
Another master of Uruguayan
art was Joaquin Torres Garcia (18-
74-1949). Although a native of
Montevideo, he studied art in Bar
celona, Spain, and visited Europe
and New York before returning
to Uruguay in 1884. Every APP
proach to modern painting is pre-.
sent in his numerous works; yet,
constructivism was his main in
terest. His Importance as a defend
er of this modern art innovation
is as great as his fame as a first
rank painter in his own right. He
had considerable influence on
local painters.
Jose Cuneo,a painter of weird
moons; Carmelo Arzadum, who
paints pale street scenes; Norber-
to Berdia, a muralist highly in
fluenced by the Mexicans, and Ra-
mon Pereyra, a Negro painter who
follows Figari, are also representa-.
tives of contemporary Uruguayan
art. Outstanding engravers are
Adolfo Pastor, Carlos Gonzalez,
Antonio Frasconi and CUTLER
mo Rodriguez.
Italians influenced early Uru-
guayan sculpture, just as they did
painting. When this art came into
its own at the end of the 10th.
century, the country's leading
sculptorS were Juan M. Ferrari
and Juan Luis Blanes, who was al
so a painter. Sculpture acquired
real Importance as Uruguayans be-
gan to study in Europe and to re-
turen with new ideas.
The names of Jose Luis Zorrilla
de San Martin, son of the national
poet of Uruguay; Jose Belloni, and
Antonio Pena, stand high among
the list of native sculptors. Con.
temporary artists, continually in
search of expression, include Ed.
mundo Pratt, German Cabrera
Juan Martin and Juan Moncalvi
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Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26

AGREEMENT

WASHINGTON - The Cuban
Austrian trade agreement signed
November 10, 1858, and modified
on December 8, 1855, has been ex-
tended for an additional two years
from January l, 1858 to December
81, 1859
Under terms OF the agreement,
Austria must buy during each year
the treaty is in force, 10000 metric
tons Of sugar for internal con-
sumption, rs tons of leaf tobacco,
and $50 tons of raw coffee.
The agreement will be auto
matically extended for another
year unless either party notifies
the otheI three months in advance
of the expiration date of its desire
for revision or cancellation of the
pact.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Ecuodor-U. S. Firms
Sign con+rdet on
Mineral Resources

NEW YORK (UPI)- Ecuador
and two American companies have
signed a contract for the use Of
the mineral resources of the South
American country, and the export
to United States Of 1000, 900 tons
annually during the next 30 years
of magnesium titanium.
The announcement was made by
the Ecuadorean ambassador to the
United States, Jose R. Chiriboga,
in a speech delivered before the
Ecuadorean-American Association
at a luncheon in his honor given
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Bodies Recovered
in Mexican Wreck

MALTRATA, Mexico CUPID =
Salvage workers have recovered
the bodies of IL persons killed
when a runaway train demolished
the railroad station here Sunday,
it was reported today.
The search was continuing for
possible additional victims.
Officials supervising the search
said it is unlikely that anyone will
ever know exactly how many per-
sons died when a passenger train
plunged out of control down the
precipitious slopes Of Maltrate
Peak and slammed into the crowd
ed station.
Thirty-nine persons were injur-
ed in the accident
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
TruiiIIo Junior
Bars Press From
His 'Wurship' in
San Pedro, Calf.

SAN PEDRO, Calf. CUPID =
Gen. Rafael Trujillo's personal
"man of war;" the Angelica, was
back at its old deck today, secur-
ed against "a storm of publicity
surrounding the generous gener-
ais stay in FINLAND.
Gates leading to Los Angeles
Harbor's Berth IS were guarded
and no one was permitted aboard
the luxurious craft without clear
ance. Especially the press.
Despite the order to batten the
matches, however, there were in
dications that 29-year-old Trujillo
and his 350-foot yacht might be
in for rough weather generated by
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. ~
Bubbly Zsa Zsa, normally out
spoken, suddenly stopped talking
Tuesday night about matters
Trujillan. The Hungarian actress
commented in her distinctive ac-
cent:
81 absolutely refuse to COM
ment!"
Persons who know the blonde
actress were surprised by her re-
ferral of questions about Trujillo
to her yacht party. They pointed
out she readily admitted receiving
an e sive sport car from
young Trujillo, quickly tangled
with a Washington lawmaker who
commented on the gift and just
this week gushed she was going
to be the hostess at Trujillo's pro-
missed yacht party.
Zsa Zsa was reported to have
said the party would be held on
the four-master on July 8 and that
she was going to invite her friends
because Trujillo didn't know many
people in Hollywood.
The actress tight-lipped refusal
to say more about the party
brought to mind a comment by
Trujillo last week that he, not
Zsa Zsa was giving the party.
Spectators who thronged the
cluffs overlooking Santa Monica
Bay to see the Angelica riding at
anchor outside the breakwater
were at a loss as to why Trujillo
moved the ship back to San Pc
dro.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Rebel Leader is
Killed in Cuba

HAVANA, CUBA (UPI)- Cub
an military intelligence agents
shot and killed rebel leader Eduar-
do B. Garcia during a raid in
search of another leader of the re.
volutionary Fidel Castro move
ment in Havana, it was announced
today.
A communique issued by the in
telligence service said agents raid
ed a section of Jouvellar Street in
downtown Havana for rebel leader
Agustin Navarrete.
1t said Garcia attacked the
agents and was killed.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26

ton the name of Adrey, but he
said that all his interviews in
clude officials of the Finance Min
istry.
The ambassador will also speak
about the visit of John Foster Dull
les, Secretary Of State to Brazil
next August.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
BOLIVIA DEGREES A
GENERAL AMNESTY

LA PAZ. CUPID. - The govern
ment decreed general amnesty, by
which all exiles for political rea-
sons may return, and all those &C.
cused and arrested for political
causes may recover their freedom.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
Latin American Finance
and Trade News Reports

peti River pending completion of
the bridge. The remainder or Rio
Grande-Santa Cruz portion is
about 140 kilometers in length.
Both the Presidents of Argen-
tina and Bolivia attended the
opening OF the railroad, built with
Argentine funds on a loan basis, as
a result of an agreement between
the two countries signed in 1941.
When completed, the railroad
should greatly benefit the Santa
Cruz area, which is the center of
the sugar industry.
ECUADOR IMPROVING
WASHINGTON - Ecuador con-
tinued on the road to economic
stability in 1857. The a~usterity
program instituted in the fall of
1856 appears to be succeeding.
Some tax relief and a relaxation
of the tight credit policy of the
past mouths should be forthcom-
ing. The 1858 budget is set at 500
million, S38 million above 1857,
but no deficit is expected.
Business picked up during the
second nalf of 1857 as exports be-
gan to move in greater volume.
The cost of living remained stable.
Exports of bananas, Ecuador's
principal exchange Garner, totaled
SAG million during the first 9
mont of 1857, an increase of 16
per cent over the same period of
1856. The Banana Producers AS
ISOLATION is actively promoting
better production methods. Cof-
fee shipments were unusually high
in the third quarter of 1857, bring
ing total earnings to $21 million,
81 million higher than the pre-.
vious year. A record rice crop per-
mitted considerably increased ex.
ports. Cacao exports remained at
the 1856 level, but prices were
higher.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CASE GOING TO u

WASHINGTON CUPID The
Nicaraguan-H onduran border dis
pute is expected to reach the inter-
national court of justice within
two weeks.
Honduran Ambassador Celeo
Davila told the GAS in a letter
that mis- government will officially
take the Ease to the Court July 1
by asking the international body
to rule that the 1905 arbitration
of the King Of Spain should be inn
plemented.
Under the ruling, much Of the
territory in question would 60 to
Honduras Nicaragua maintains
that The King Of SPANS award is
not valid,
The expected Honduran action
will remove the controversy from
the GAS sphere.
Diario las Américas., 1958-06-26
HEMISPHERE EVENTS
Latin American News in Brief

Paul E. Calvet, president OF Mar
eel Calvet and Co., and president
of Calvet Martinez S.A., from Qua
yaquil, was elected president OF
the Association.