REVOLUTIONARY COALS IN LATIN AMERICA
On August 12 Ecuador police claimed to have discovered large | stores of arms and munitions that were to be used for guerrilla oper-. ations near Guayaquil. Rafael Garcia Velasco, the new minister of interior, said that "all the agitators are mobilizing" on the eve of a strike projected by the merchants of Quito.
-On the same day, a report from Venezuela said that government forces had discovered five tons of arms and supplies “abandoned" by. guerrilla forces in Falcon. At Cantauro a band of twenty guerrilla fighters helped themselves to supplies from a store.
In Washington fears were expressed that Guatemala may soon erupt into a "second Dominican Republic," according to the August. 11 New York Herald Tribune. The situation is "potentially far worse" because a band of puerrillas are operating in the mountains. They are led by Yon Sosa, who took advantage of the U.S. to gain training at the Fort Gulick counterinsurgency school in Panama,
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HUGO BLANCO'tS ROLE IN THE PERUVIAN PHRASANT MOVEMENT
[The following letter concerning Hugo Blanco was sent by