The World - News from May 19, 1988
A mutiny by about 2,000 Nicaraguan Contras at a southern Honduras base camp has all but collapsed, leaving the rebels’ top military chief, Enrique Bermudez, in firm control of the guerrilla army, Contra officials said. Several dozen dissident rebel commanders signed a statement recognizing the authority of Bermudez and the Contra high command, the officials said, leaving only several hundred troops still in revolt at Yamales, 60 miles east of the Honduran capital. The dissidents accused Bermudez and his aides of corruption, human rights abuses and dictatorial tendencies and demanded that they be purged from the rebel leadership.
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