Diario las Américas

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SAN SALVADOR—(UP) El Sal

vador’s population increases in

more than 70,000 inhabitants per

annum, according to the Direction

of Statistics and Census.

Up to the last day of June of

this year there were in El Salva

dor 2,139,124 inhabitants. El Sal

vador occupies second place in the

continent, after the Haitian Repub

Mexican Leader

Denies he is

a Comunist

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 3—(UP

Student leader Nicandro Mendoza

denied today that he is a com

munist and complained he was

“unjustly” jailed after riots during

the strike of 25,000 students.

Last week Mendoza and four

more students were arrested, ac

cused of being the instigators of.

the student riots which during the

last four months have maintained

in a state of uneasiness the princip

al Mexican cities.

Mendoza, who made a quick trip

to Moscow after failure of the

strike of 66 days, during which

students marched through the

streets causing great damages, de

clared he is only a “poor student”

trying to “save” his school, the Na

tional Polytechnic Institute.

Two weeks ago the Government

inflicted a serious defeat to the

striking students, when it sent arm

ed forces to eject “200 agitators

and loafers” who were living at the

students’ dormitories.

Mendoza, who for eight years had

been in the first year of medicine,

was accused, together with his fol

lowers, of destroying public pro

perty, death threats, repeated theft,

assault, celebrating public meetings

without proper authorization, and

creating an state of unrest and

fear among the neighbors of the

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Diario las Américas. (1956). Miami, Fla.;Miami Springs, Fla., 1956-10-04. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82001257/1956-10-04/ed-1/?sp=10

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Diario las Américas, 1956-10-04.