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...Mexico, graves are still decorated with candy skulls and toy skeletons. These are afterward given to the children to play with or to eat. For a tableau of hell (opposite). Girard combined bread-and-sugar diablos from Ecuador, plaster devils from Bolivia, pottery Satans from Venezuela, and unpainted wood grotesques from the Mexican town of Erongarícuaro...
GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, June 24--An eight-man film team, including four Harvard graduate and undergraduate students, took the first pictures of an erupting volcano in the Galapagos Islands early this week...
...first arriving in Quito, the capital of Ecuador and a seven-hour trip from here, the group discovered that it might have trouble obtaining passage to the Galapagos at the right time and at the right price. At one point, Sulloway said, it appeared they might have to return to Ecuador in December because the Summer schedule, including stops all around the continent, was too tight for an extended wait to get to the islands...
Rich on $1,167 a Year. With its exploding population (increasing 3.4% a year) and depressed economy, Ecuador indeed needs action. "A rich man here," says Ecuador's retiring interim President, Otto Arosemena, "is poorer than a porter on Wall Street." The 2% of the population that the government considers to be rich has an annual per capita income of only $1,167. Most of the country's 5,400,000 people-40% Indian, 50% mestizo and 10% white-live in abject poverty, either scratching out a living in the scabrous, rock-strewn Andes or drifting into...
...prospects for Velasco's fifth government, which takes office August 31, are not much brighter than those of his earlier ones. Though he himself won handily, the gaunt, white-haired septuagenarian wound up with only 35 seats for his supporters in Ecuador's 132-member Congress. But he can at least take comfort from the fact that the country's 20,000-man army appears for the time being to have lost its zeal for rule. Rather than subjecting Ecuador to another debilitating series of interim governments that lack both power and popular support, the army plans...