Word: arosemena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make comment at this time on the events in another country." A top State Department official interpreted: "We're waiting to see what happens." Ecuador & Peru. What happens could spread explosively beyond Argentina's borders. In Ecuador last week, army officers ordered President Carlos Julio Arosemena to break relations with Castro's Cuba, touching off a crisis in which Aro-semena's entire Cabinet resigned. In Peru, where a leader of Latin America's non-Communist left, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, is running strong for next June's presidential elections...
...port city of Guayaquil, in Andean towns, and finally in the capital of Quito itself, angry students and workers raced through cobbled streets stoning police and overturning cars. Egging on the mobs were the usual Communist agitators and one important political figure, Ecuador's Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena, 42, an aristocrat turned leftist, who pointedly ignored Adlai Stevenson's visit last June, flew off instead to Moscow and returned calling Nikita Khrushchev "my friend." From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator." As the mobs grew more threatening...