817.00/6420: Telegram
The Chargé in Nicaragua ( Hanna ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:55 p.m.]
244. My 243, October 3, 4 p.m. The following eight prisoners were sent to Corinto this morning for deportation to Mexican port on the steamship Colombia due to leave Corinto this evening: Gabry Rivas; Adolfo Ortega Diaz; Salomon de la Selva; Gustavo Manzanares, in whose house the conspirators recently met … ; Alfredo Rivas, onetime chief of La Loma fortress and said to be an aide of Chamorro’s at the present time; Fernando Larios, alleged to be cooperating with Tijerino and Selva; Enrique Aviles, alleged agent of Tijerino recently returned from Honduras; and Adan Morales, alleged leader in the plot mentioned in my despatch number 1130, August 24, 1929.
I understand that these deportations are based on evidence that those deported were conspiring to create disorder in Nicaragua, and are made under authority of article 112 of the Nicaraguan Constitution.