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...land, and in the bleak highlands, where half of the country's 5,000,000 people live in medieval squalor and ignorance, hacienda owners pay their workers as little as 5? a day. The four-man military junta that toppled hard-drinking President Carlos Julio Arosemena three years ago promised to change all that. In a blizzard of decrees, they set out on a daring program that sought moderate landreform, modernized tax collections, a civil-service law, and more highways, housing and schools...
After Ecuador's military overthrew hard-drinking, leftist President Carlos Julio Arosemena two years ago, the four-man junta that succeeded him quickly embarked on "the unpostponable obligation of carrying out basic reforms." It outlawed the country's 4,000-member Communist Party, adopted the country's first civil service law, cracked down on smuggling, centralized tax collection and tightened export regulations on bananas, Ecuador's biggest cash crop. The reforms were necessary-though not necessarily popular. But when it came to a return to constitutional rule, the junta moved slowly, promising elections some time...
...ECUADOR is under military rule, and likely to stay that way for a while. "Power," says Rear Admiral Ramon Castro Jijón, chief of the junta, "does not lure us. Only the circumstances retain us." In the 19 months since the military toppled erratic, hard-drinking Carlos Julio Arosemena, Ecuador's progress-minded soldiers have ground out hundreds of decrees organizing a civil service, setting up a land reform, revising the tax system. New industry (paint, textiles, detergents) is flowing into Quito and Guayaquil. In the highlands, where half of Ecuador's 4,700,000 people...
...after an inconclusive election threatened to divide the country into warring camps; when tempers cooled, Peru had another election, and now President Fernando Belaunde Terry is successfully working to develop the country. In Ecuador, the military retrieved the country from the boozy, embarrassing excesses of President Carlos Julio Arosemena and pressed on with a sobering program of austerity and fiscal reforms. In El Salvador, burly Army Colonel Julio Rivera took power three years ago; he has now been freely elected constitutional President, is breaking the hold of the aristocracy and improving the lot of the peasants. "Only by giving liberty...
...Ecuador's military leaders last year ousted liquor-loaded President Carlos Arosemena, now promise free elections in 1965. The government is friendly to the U.S., recently headed off a blooming Castro-Communist movement...