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During the clash, over forty of the alleged Communists were captured by the police; however, all of the leaders, some of whom are believed to have been wounded, escaped. The principal Communist agitators, such as Manuel Mora Adolfo Braxa, Romulo Betancourt, and Guillermo Fernández, were not present at the meeting. Nor was Carmen Lyra (Isabel carvajal) at the seene of the riot. It is therefore presumed that most of the participants in the affray were not communists but mere unemployed laborers; the Communist leaders, true to form, had no director active part in the actual disorders and left the participants to suffer the consequences of the acts of violence to which they had been incited.
They did, however, invite the unemployed to gather in the Communist club.
Immediately following the clash, precautions were taken to prevent other outbreaks in other parts of the city and warrants were issued for the arrest of a number of the well known Communist agitators. meeting of the cabinet was held on the evening of the day of the rioting, which was followed by a decree authorizing the deportation of the following foreigners, charged with having been actively engaged in communist propaganda: Rómulo Betancourt, a Venezuelan student attending the San José Law School; Adolfo Braña, a Spaniard, recently