Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give me a balcony in each town ind I shall take possession of Ecuador," Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra once cried from exile. Last week, having harangued the country from balconies all over Ecuador, Velasco Ibarra was elected President to succeed U.S.-educated Galo Plaza Lasso...
...another car, saying: "We will mend the pants, repair the car, and build a school with the cost of a new car." He was wildly erratic: when a minor official complained about a cabinet minister, Velasco fired the minister on the spot and gave the job to the complainer. "Ecuador," Velasco concluded, "is a very difficult country to govern...
...shrunken heads collected by the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador are merely trophies which prove that an injury has been avenged...
...Ecuador. After four Presidents in eleven months, Galo Plaza Lasso, a U.S.-born democrat, was chosen President by orderly elections in 1948. Chances are 50-50 that he can survive until August, his term...
...Wanted? Because revolutions often become epidemic, some fear that the Batista coup and last week's Bolivian revolt may be followed by explosions elsewhere, possibly in Ecuador or Colombia. But nobody in Latin America, except the Communists and the neo-fascist fringe, professes to want any other kind of government except democracy. In the long run, as hunger and ignorance are dealt with, democracy may yet win in Latin America, though it is likely to be quite different from the U.S. variety...