Office of the Historian

822.00 Revolutions/68: Telegram

The Consul General at Guayaquil (McDonough) to the Secretary of State

Guayaquil, September 26, 1935—10 p.m.
[Received September 27—1:05 a.m.]

An apparently successful revolutionary movement by the Ecuadoran Army headed by Colonel Benigno Andrade, Inspector General of the Army, occurred at 6:30 p.m. today at Quito. The Army have declared a dictatorship dissolving Congress and have appointed Engineer [Page 533] Federico Paez, who has been Minister of Public Works, Provisional President. Local troops are supporting the movement. Guayaquil is fairly quiet.

McDonough