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...DOUSDEBES SJ. San Gregorio Quito, Ecuador...
Castro's main target was Ecuador's Carlos Julio Arosemena, who, under pressure of his own military, had just made Ecuador the 15th hemisphere nation to break relations with Cuba.- Of all Latin America's Presidents, Arosemena has been probably the most sympathetic to Castro, and when the Ecuadorian took power last November, Fidel chortled that "it must have hit Washington like a 65-megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst...
Miss Hegeman will study South American social agencies, in particular a Columbian school for underprivileged children near Bogota. Rosaldo plans to investigate social problems of migratory Indians in Ecuador and Peru. The remaining projects are in the humanities in Bolivia and Argentina: Spencer will work on the background of the 1952 Bolivian revolution, Kahn and Miss Meyer on topics in contemporary Argentine literature...
...most serious case of journalistic misbehaviour, but the papers are guilty elsewhere of sensationalism and negligence. Those who wrote from Buenos Aires a month ago, and those who read the dispatches, seemed astonished at the huge number of Peronists returned in Argentina's latest elections--but few Argentines were. Ecuador reaches the front pages in times of revolt, but not when it revises its banking structure. And subscribers rarely even hear about the rest of that large continent, for a Caribbean island occupies the exclusive attention of most newspaper staffs: exhaustive stories on Cuba continue to occupy the attention...
...from the reports still not clear enough, and I think, therefore, it would be unwise, lacking that kind of precise information, for us to make comment at this time on the events in another country." A top State Department official interpreted: "We're waiting to see what happens." Ecuador & Peru. What happens could spread explosively beyond Argentina's borders. In Ecuador last week, army officers ordered President Carlos Julio Arosemena to break relations with Castro's Cuba, touching off a crisis in which Aro-semena's entire Cabinet resigned. In Peru, where a leader of Latin...