Word: ecuador
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...understand the annoyance felt by the Soviet Union," said Ecuador's Dr. Jose Correa...
Above all other difficulties, competition from Ecuador has upset United Fruit's banana cart. Ecuador's banana exports have increased 1,000% since the late 1940s, giving it 20% of the world banana trade and making it the world's No. 1 producer. Only one-fifth of Ecuador's bananas are shipped by United Fruit...
...Ecuador, street riots killed five and injured 33 when ex-President José Maria Velasco Ibarra arrived in Quito to stir up his supporters and start his campaign there for the presidential election June...
...some safety wire, Quesada chugged along having himself a fine time. He fished in the lake region of Argentina, threaded through the Andes ("with the Christ of the Andes above my head"). One day he set the plane down in the ocean about 50 miles off the coast of Ecuador ("I got very thirsty"). But when he tried to handcrank his engine for a takeoff, the inertial starter clutch failed. "There I was," he says, "drifting to Honolulu. I cranked myself to exhaustion." After long minutes of finger drumming, Quesada suddenly recalled an old aviator's superstition. He went...
...much against the wishes of outgoing President Calvin Coolidge, who tried to get him to go in a cruiser, because "it would not cost so much"). His reception in Buenos Aires was so tumultuous that the Argentine President had his tailcoat ripped up the back. Hoover also journeyed into Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, met Bolivian government chiefs on a U.S. warship in the Pacific, was the target of an abortive bomb plot by anarchists in Argentina. During his trip. Hoover coined the historic phrase "good neighbors," and later he speeded the end of U.S. armed intervention in Latin America...