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...sent delegates to the U.N. Security Council and the Organization of American States to denounce the U.S. intervention and demand that the U.S. forces be withdrawn. At the Security Council he won the approval of Russia's Valerian Zorin but only eloquent silence from Security Council members Ecuador and Chile. At the OAS, no other Latin American nation could bring itself to protest the toppling of the Trujillo empire, and Dr. José Antonio Bonilla Atiles, one of the Trujillo opposition, told the Security Council. " 'Blessed be the moment when the American fleet came to Dominican waters...
...poorest and least stable of Latin America's underdeveloped nations is Ecuador, a small, banana-growing republic perched on South America's Pacific rump. Ecuador's 4,400,000 people earn a per-capita annual income of only $165, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; by no coincidence only 13 elected governments have finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash...
...been President four times, has completed only one term. A spellbinding orator who swings from right to left to suit his audience, he was elected last year by the votes and demonstrations of what he calls "the divine mob." But in office, he did little to ease Ecuador's chronic problems. Promised campaigns for land reform, slum clearance, roads and industrial development were slow in coming; living costs rose 30% in six months, wages failed to keep pace. The final straw was a "tax reform" program that angered the public...
Early this year, Klein & Saks, a U.S. consultant firm, recommended an overhaul of Ecuador's antiquated tax structure, under which the rich minority get off easy. Three months ago, angling for Alliance for Progress aid, Velasco ordered new taxes. But instead of increasing the burden on the aristocracy, he slapped the little man with a series of excise taxes on 37 consumer items from soft drinks to lard. One levy even set tolls for the country's few paved roads, many of which were built with the $121 million in U.S. aid that Ecuador has received since World...
Rocks & Bullets. In the big port city of Guayaquil, in Andean towns, and finally in the capital of Quito itself, angry students and workers raced through cobbled streets stoning police and overturning cars. Egging on the mobs were the usual Communist agitators and one important political figure, Ecuador's Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena, 42, an aristocrat turned leftist, who pointedly ignored Adlai Stevenson's visit last June, flew off instead to Moscow and returned calling Nikita Khrushchev "my friend." From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator...