ANGEL ZUNIGA HUETE'S ESTIMATE OF CENTRAL AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400180007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 2, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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l.. Angel Zuniga Huete, a defeated candidate in the recent Honduran presidential
elections, who is now in exile in Mexico, recently set forth his observations
concerning the Central American revolutionary situation in a letter dated
25 January 1949, written to Dr. Cecilio Lopez Poncb, Cellejon Concordia 11-SC,
Guatemala City
2, Zuriga Huete remarked that President Prio of Cuba had lost much of his former
enthusiasm for the democratization of the Caribbean area since his recent visit
to Washington, and implied that this would affect the attitude of President
Arevalo of Guatemala.
Zuniga Huete advised Lopez Ponce that Juan Bosch and Fufemio Fernandez had both
left Cuba early in January, and were to pass through Guatemala City end return
to Cuba on 15 January, but as of 25 January there had been no report of their
return. According to the letter, Juan Bosch was to have contacted Lopez and
Zuniga in Guatemala, but when Bosch did not appear, Zuniga moved on to Mexico.,
leaving a letter behind in Guatemala for Bosch.,
4. Zuniga Huete observed that the deadline for further revolutionary action by
Nicaragua had almost passed, He also was skeptical that the Honduran President
would carry out his promise to /!revalo and Figueres,* to rid the government of
the influence of ex-President C,-rias. Zuniga Huete expressed his doubt that
Carias, still in effective control, would permit Galvez to make any drastic
changes and was of the opinion that the two would go along peacefully together
because the United Fruit Company would have nothing to gain by a feud between
them,
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