Word: vergara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
Wily old General Ibañez, a 1927-vintage dictator, claimed that he had tried to dissuade the plotters, but nobody believed him. Vergara would not talk. A sergeant uncovered one factor with the naive testimony: "I thought the movement was only aimed to raise...
Last week, with the 29-day court investigation completed, most details of the conspiracy were out in the open. Ibañez had been the front man, Vergara the boss. The plotters had relied on three discontented groups: underpaid noncoms, impatient junior officers and out-of-power conservative politicos. The aim was to set up a military dictatorship...
Bits & Pieces. Vergara's stubborn silence blocked full inquiry into the biggest question of all: Who, if anyone, had inspired and financed him? But from bits & pieces, fitted together, Prosecutor José Nogues bluntly tagged the plot "Made in Argentina." Said he: "The subversive movement . . . was inspired from Argentina and intimately synchronized with similar movements in other Latin American countries...
...wind up the affair, Prosecutor Nogues recommended five years' imprisonment for Vergara, three years' banishment for Ibañez and fines of 50,000 pesos ($1,175) each. For the officers he asked lighter terms; for the noncoms, only two months' military arrest. At week's end President González, who knows a danger signal when he sees one, was pushing through Congress a 20% pay raise for the armed forces...