DISAFFECTION IN THE ARMED FORCES OF ECUADOR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300710008-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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The followiap; information = the armed forces of Zauador was rev .a1 ed to
Vice President Sotomayor y Luna during a tour he made Fran 20-27 Deoe ber 1911
through the coastal and withers. reglons of rouador.
l.- Bub-Lieutenants Fie-Ira en-1 Res .' guoz of the C rohi .infantry Tiattelion located
at 4.renil.tas reported t'tat tI?ry and others arong the 400 officers and man of
the battalion have received very taunting offers fron perems visiting their
station to engage in a moviertant against the present Favezvow t of rind r. They
stated- that most of this officers, with the a ion of Major Jorge E. Roche,
Cal; n- I r de la Tcr re, and themselves, have agreed to join the movement.
They've" of the opf of on :'tut a greater part of the two p had also fallen in
with the plan.
2. The agltatore for this meArement WAS the eft annb.Uauteatnts th followings
a. The opposition grout is headed to- a trimvirate made up of Dr. Carlos
Guevara Eioreno, Dr, Joss Vicente Trujillo, and Colonel Carlos Manche no.
b. Lieutenant Colo?rel Cower Alfaro (at present Denuty Chief of Staff) will
atia'Nfte command of the Are if the ooup is snoeeeeful.
o. Three-fourths of the Army are behind the venent.
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d. The Guardia '.ivi1,along the coast was in favor of the movement whereas the
Navy was coJ1 to the paropositian, and the Air Force pilots nontecosptiwre.
s. The enlisleid personnel at the fuaysquil and Salinas bases were said to be
varg much in favor of the idea.
00000001 2. A. When the President of Ecuador received the report of the
two sub-lieitenants he ordered that they be sent to Quito for further
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3. The Cowan tier of the Anti-Aircraft Battery (20 n.) at Santa Rosa, Captain
9aquero, f.tated confidentially that he was very much disturbed over the eon-
apiring against the government which was going on within his one v send. He said
that W,~oonditione angler which, his personnel had to live were a most i~tfluential
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quietly to rseruit followers for the movament since It vvt1 a be a oJ.ass
move:ent directed agsinst the hipttei social levels.
Tho Governor of M Oro reported that the civil arithorities felt that the
situation vac already lost in view of the large nurbere of supports pained
by the noverient in the coastal p nvinoes and the failure of the povermant
to take the appropriate'tteaaurea neweenT to bait this opposition.
factor in their au the 4ot aa~7y the enlisted personnel,
but also the officers were said to bo Involved. Captain 3a r,1a7ed
letters vh3 ah had been sent to his soldiers and officers f'run various
politician jm Gttayaquii. Those letters as ced that the adsdresreoa work
Information was submitted to the Vice President which proved the fust that
Cantsin I'ontano, oarrander of a tang detactm oat which was ordare to Oua atquil
to take care of ez public disorders (of. ~,, is pro-l4saoheno and a
member of the resistance movement. Montsro ire stated that he was oollaborzting
with Colonel t!eneheno and that the only thing holding up the boup at the
aaront was the matter of getting the various elements to pall together.
Montano stated that there was ? a aivilian oamrdssion In Quito which -fan trying
to o,*M n pledges from the Sierra writs to join the ooaataL units in -order to
be assured of final amass. Major Jorge Cartaire vos pointed out as one of
the coordinators in the Sierra. 2'ontano added further that he an I a FAroup of
oftiaors had :written Manoheno aaeuring hint of their oontimied support and
reoeived in a reniy a letter of thanks. Manchano wrote that he mme; ready to
do at he coca? d to vindicate the honor of the Meohaniseri Omap (Tn c Corps),
rang rtenbors of which had so gallantly died In Aupuat and Seotwtber 1947 that
he m1pht rosin President of Bmmdor. Manoheno requested that no Bather
aorsrunication be sent to him direct oa he was being untehe?. He suggested that
rossagee should be sent to his brother-in-law, Jame Jasrln.
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