Word: arroyos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visa to go home. He explained that he had been proposed as candidate of the Conservative and Socialist parties in the June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return...
President Arroyo del Rio was taking no chances. Three times within the last eight years Ibarra had been involved in revolutionary uprisings. Once in 1940, when Arroyo del Rio was winning the elections, Ibarra staged a coup which almost succeeded. In 1935 the Army toppled Velasco on charges of dictatorship, but this did not hurt the ex-President's popularity with many Ecuadorians. Last week a group of sailors in the Island of Puna staged a revolt in his name which was put down by force of arms...
Handsome Pepe, wed in 1942 at San Diego to blonde Mignon Summers, onetime Powers model, aroused President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio's ire early this year. Enthusiastically, the six-foot novillero of the bull ring and artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border...
...settled down for a long siege. He planned to remain out of circulation until Aug. 10, when Congress convenes. At that time the President's dictatorial powers for maintaining the status quo will automatically expire. Congress, he hoped, will save him from Police Minister Aguilar, from President Arroyo del Rio and from confinement at Guaranda. Said he: "I did not pledge my word to return. . . . They even refused to clean my cell lest I should have someone to talk...
Last week the President also: > Was host to Ecuador's firm, friendly President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, one of the Americas' stanchest Good Neighbors. At the White House President Arroyo was guest at a state dinner, remained overnight, discussed long and earnestly with Franklin Roosevelt the prospects for post-war economic unity in the Western Hemisphere...