Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trifling incident set off a flash fire of deadly rioting in Ecuador...
...ECUADOR Violence in Three Stages
...hatred of a young army recruit for his martinet captain in the dusty Pacific town garrison of Portoviejo caused the rioting that put Ecuador under martial law and killed at least 37 people...
Concentration on breaking latifundista political power often obscures the fact that a country may have excellent virgin farmlands available. Ecuador spent its public funds not for expropriating land but for building 1,600 miles of roads to open up the hot coastal plains. A thousand persons still own 80% of the cool Andean valleys, but peasants on free, 124-acre coastal plots are enjoying a boom that raised agricultural income 43% in seven years...
...Washington the Organization of American States met, listened to a Panamanian plea for help against "international pirates," sent an investigating team. While patrol boats and planes contributed by the U.S., Ecuador and Colombia scouted the Caribbean and the Panamanian coast for signs of a rumored reinforcement fleet, Invader Chief Cesar Vega met the Cuban officers and the OAS negotiators, and surrendered. Cuba was expected to ask Panama to give the invaders leniency, a quality unknown to the Castro firing squads at home...