“ It ’ s ridiculous !” Wayne told reporters when asked about his involvement in the April revolt in Panama .
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John Wayne , against the rabiblancos
“ It ’ s ridiculous !” Wayne told reporters when asked about his involvement in the April revolt in Panama .
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In that event his friend and partner , lawyer Roberto Tito Arias , was involved with a group of “ Panamanian revolutionaries ”, who involved Cuban militiamen to overthrow the aristocratic government of Ernesto de la Guardia jr . In 1959 .
A boat landed the Cubans on the beaches of Colon . Another group of young idealists rose with old weapons in Veraguas , and several cells tried to attack barracks in Chiriquí and Panama , without success .
John Profumo , former Minister of Government of Great Britain , wrote about the adventure , in which the English subject Margot Fonteyn was linked , the first dancer of the Royal Ballet of London , married to Tito Arias .
In January 1959 , she and her husband visited Castro , who “ had promised to help her husband in his goal of overthrowing the regime in Panama .” In April of that year , she and her husband went to sea on their yacht Nola , as a fishing trip . This trip was intended to gather men and weapons for the revolutionary attempt .
Something went wrong , Fonteyn returned without her husband to Panama City , where she was imprisoned for twenty-four hours . Sir Ian Henderson , the British ambassador , visited her and wrote in a subsequent , somewhat irascible diplomatic telegram that she had tried to speak “ in whispers of conspiracy , to which I put a brake in front of the police .” “ She knew her husband trafficked arms , she knew he was accompanied by rebels and , at one point , used her yacht as a decoy to keep government vessels and planes away from the direction her husband was taking , “ the ambassador wrote .
“ It gave me to understand that a rather large operation had been planned but that it had gone wrong at the last moment ,” John Profumo said .
“ The plan was to dock somewhere and meet in the mountains ,” but they were betrayed by fishermen , she said , “ so it was hurriedly decided that the game was over and that her husband was to go underground and she returned to the city of Panama to try to mislead people .
Profumo also sought to explain how it came to associate some names of Hollywood stars with the attempted coup . “ The ill-made comedy of all this is highlighted , so Margot told me , about those rash decisions that were taken at sea at 6 a . m . of that Sunday “.
By mistake , Fonteyn tossed white bracelets “ with which the rebels would be recognized on landing ” instead of “ some incriminating letters and the address book of her husband , who hurriedly packed up with some machine guns and ammunition ... When , after they caught one of the rebels and questioned him , it seems that he gave them away and found all this equipment , “ including the addresses ” of several personalities of Hollywood “ with whom , apparently , Arias had business .
“ That ’ s how the names of John Wayne , Errol Flynn , etcetera , appeared in all this ,” Profumo wrote , as Alan Cowell investigated .
Wayne Conspirator
Errol Caballero , recounts that “ after the wedding ( held in 1955 ), Tito took up his position as Panamanian ambassador to the court of St . James in England . The life of the new marriage was never boring : through her husband , Margot met Marilyn Monroe , John Wayne , Aristotle Onasis , among other celebrities .
From those years , according to my researches , the author of this minihistory speaks - Tito included these artists and entrepreneurs in flagging activities of ships and corporations .
Even Wayne purchased , through his services as a lawyer , land on Taborcillo Island , where he was secluded to rest , located on the Pacific coast , 40 kilometers from Panama City . He made friends with the family of Arias , mainly with Alberto Negro Arias , who gave him a gold buckle , made by the expert hands of Francisco Aurelio Martínez , an artisan jeweler .
He even met the young officer Omar Torrijos , who decades later asked for his support to recover the Panama Canal and eliminate colonialism .
There are still few Duke Biographies with this movie adventure .
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