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Cornered by a group of curious Peace Corps volunteers in Ecuador, Vaughn offered his assessment of the U.S. effort. "Until the ordinary people you're working with get a chance to join the human race," he said, "there's no hope for democracy. Today we are not thinking of the Latin Americans in terms of throwing them another $2,000,000 just to get them out of our hair." This week Vaughn moves on to Bolivia and Peru, then returns to the U.S. When he gets home, maybe the phone will start ringing at midnight...
...After Ecuador's military overthrew hard-drinking, leftist President Carlos Julio Arosemena two years ago, the four-man junta that succeeded him quickly embarked on "the unpostponable obligation of carrying out basic reforms." It outlawed the country's 4,000-member Communist Party, adopted the country's first civil service law, cracked down on smuggling, centralized tax collection and tightened export regulations on bananas, Ecuador's biggest cash crop. The reforms were necessary-though not necessarily popular. But when it came to a return to constitutional rule, the junta moved slowly, promising elections some time...
...uneasy quiet settled back over Ecuador, General Marcos Gándara Enríquez, one of the junta members, conceded that it was "possible" that the military might step down earlier than scheduled. But first the junta wants assurances that its reforms would be continued by the next government and that Communists would remain outlawed. As a sign of good faith, the military at week's end arranged the resignation of Ecuador's tame nine-man Cabinet-enabling the junta to name new ministers more acceptable to the opposition...
Today Protestant leaders are concerned about their fissiparous tendencies. Latin America already has more than 200 religious organizations, and the Brazilian Methodists are facing the threat of a schism. In Argentina and Ecuador, however, a number of Protestant churches have begun to explore the possibility of merger. Some Protestants fear also that their churches may be concentrating too exclusively on the minutiae of personal conduct; Brazilian Baptists, for example, had 10,000 converts last year but threw out 4,000 members for such sins as smoking and drinking. Protestantism thus may be missing the social implications in the message...
Plaza, twice president of Ecuador and later U.N. mediator for Cyprus, was called an "able field general for freedom...