Show Latin Am American rican Countries More Pacific During 1933 By HENRY W. W BAGLEY Associated Press F Foreign Staff The tide of revolution which swept Latin America in 1932 was at low ebb In 1933 yet three republics experienced experienced ex ex- changes In administration An August revolt overthrew President President President dent Gerardo Machado in Cuba and quickly was followed by another uprising uprising uprising up up- rising which ousted his successor I Carlos Caries Manuel de Cespedes and installed installed in in- stalled Ramon Grau y San Martin as os chief executive He still holds office despite lack of recognition by leading leading leading lead lead- ing powers including the United States Peru Ecuador Change In Peru an assassins assassin's bullet removed removed removed re re- re- re moved Luis M. M Sanchez Cerro as president General Oscar Benavides assumed the office His position is reported as Insecure but an on iron- iron cal censorship keeps the outside world uninformed More President Martinez Mera of Ecuador was ousted by a senate vote on October 10 and arid Dr Abelardo Montalvo was named to succeed him Elections In mid mid-De cember made Velasco Ibarra chief executive There were two cases of ot international international Warfare A Colombian an dispute over territory near the of the Amazon caused hostilities but the fighting quickly ceased The League of Nations sent senta a commission of inquiry Then Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador dor claimed she Wa was entitled to a voice In any settlement of the dispute dispute dispute dis dis- dis- dis and the negotiations promise tobe to tobe tobe be prolonged War Puzzles Parley Parity The Paraguayan-Bolivian Paraguayan war Inthe in inthe inthe the Gran Chaco continued throughout through through- out the year being marked by pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- Paraguayan successes In December It held on despite efforts to stop it emanating from the League of Nations the Argentina- Argentina Peru Chile conciliation combination com com- and the Washington neu neu- train It formed a puzzling question too for the seventh Pan-American Pan conference conference con con- ference which assembled in MontevIdeo Montevideo Montevideo Monte Monte- video on December 3 A concrete step taken at Montevideo Montevideo Montevideo Monte Monte- video was the decision to hold a Pan- Pan American commercial parley at Santiago Santiago San Son tiago Chile early next summer to discuss Mexico's proposal for tor a moratorium morn mora on foreign debts both private and go governmental Peace Pact Pad Popular Argentina launched a multilateral eral antiwar pact which quickly attracted at at- the signatures of a a. dozen or more nations Italy signed it it as did the Netherlands Like the latter countr country Great Britain and France have colonial possessions in Latin America |