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...expected any immediate dividends from its diplomatic attempts to retrieve the Cuban disaster, it got a sharp setback. For weeks Washington has been working feverishly to line up hemisphere support for an emergency meeting of the OAS Foreign Ministers to deal with Castro. But last week Ecuador's Foreign Minister Jose Chiriboga, a strong proponent of collective OAS punitive action, was forced to resign under pressure from President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, who is busily courting Castro these days...
...political stability, Honduras is a long way from being a democratic showcase. Villeda Morales calls it "the country of the four 705-70% illiteracy, 70% illegitimacy, 70% rural population, 70% avoidable deaths." The original "banana republic," Honduras is being driven out of that depressed market by murderous competition from Ecuador, and by plant-rotting Panama disease in its own crops. Both United Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit have cut payrolls, and United Fruit is selling its holdings. Meanwhile, government dollar reserves have slipped to $9,900,000; tax revenues are down to $38 million annually, while the government...
...border-one led by George McGovern, 38, director of Kennedy's Food-for-Peace program, the other by Deputy Director James Symington, 33, guitar-playing, folksinger son of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's five-man team flew to Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador to offer grain, seed and other surplus foodstuffs as inducements to get to work on land-reform programs. Other stops: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. McGovern. traveling with Brain-Truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (along as Kennedy's personal representative), visited food-exporting Argentina to reassure it that...
...Down. According to Estrada, no similar oriental-looking objects have been found elsewhere in Central or South America. His theory is that a small group of people from across the Pacific found their way to Ecuador, perhaps were shipwrecked near Bahia and founded a colony there. Some of their imported cultural traits, such as a liking for headrests and peaked gables, persisted for a few generations before dying...
Earth burial is most common, and often most bizarre. The Jivaro of Peru and Ecuador sit the dead man, head in hands, on a bench, and bury him beneath the floor of his own home, which is then abandoned. The Cuna people dig deep pits, roof them over and bury their dead in hammocks swinging gently underground. Air burial is widespread. The Sioux have been known to bury their dead in trees. In Tibet, the corpse is chopped up and tossed to the vultures...