Word: baquerizo
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...Harvard alumnus I have to deplore the manipulation and improper use that President Mahuad made of his Harvard ties," wrote Rodolfo A. Baquerizo '85, who was a board member of Ecuador's central bank from 1992 to 1996, in an e-mail message...
...should return to defend himself, and allow the Ecuadoran courts to determine his innocence or culpability," Baquerizo wrote...
...encompasses 97% of the islands' land area. The invaders held workers captive for four days, harassed scientists and threatened to kill tortoises. In a more serious uprising last month, the headquarters and research station were occupied for two weeks, along with the airport in the provincial capital of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno--this time by residents angry about the government's refusal to consider their demands for greater local control of the islands. "Both times the station and the park were pawns in the game," says Johannah Barry, executive director of the U.S.-based Charles Darwin Foundation, which raises money...
President Baquerizo Moreno ground his teeth and issued a decree: Ecuador was off the gold standard. The president of the Banco Central immediately resigned in protest...
...mountains between Guayaquil and Quito, where rain had been pouring for a fortnight, there were heavy landslides. Telegraph lines were broken, train service suspended. Prices in Guayaquil skyrocketed. President Baquerizo Moreno's granddaughter applied the raw flesh of a Guayaquil beef to her blackened...