Word: ecuador
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...loud cry for help from Ecuador sent the Organization of American States into an evening emergency session in Washington last week. As Ecuador's Washington Ambassador Jose Chiriboga told it, it sounded alarmingly like war: Peruvian military forces, "feverishly" built up within "recent hours," were massed 20,000-30,000 strong near the Ecuadorian border, creating "an imminent danger to [Ecuador's] territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence...
...Ecuador-Peru quarrel over boundaries has been bubbling, and occasionally boiling up into small-scale warfare, ever since Ecuador became a nation in 1830. In 1942, after the last serious gunfighting between the two countries, a six-nation committee in Rio awarded Peru some three-fourths of the null jungle territory under dispute. The Ecuadorians have been fretting about the decision ever since, and the mere approach of a Peruvian patrol to the poorly demarcated border is enough to set off invasion alarms. During the past year, nerves on both sides have tautened further as the two countries added...
Although Rojas claimed that he had clamped down on the press only because it failed to live up to its own "code of honor," Bogota newsmen noted that censorship began on the eve of the President's long-postponed weekend visit to Ecuador, repaying last year's good-will visit to Bogota by President Velasco Ibarra. Just to be on the safe side, President Rojas took with him a huge retinue of 115 Cabinet ministers and officials, including all the friends and foes of consequence who might dream of plotting behind his back. Rojas installed an Acting President...
...Venezuela visited Lima in June,, and next week the President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President Velasco Ibarra...
Guayasamin's subject matter, Ecuador, is all his own. He sees it as a tragic land, where Indians, mestizos and Negroes struggle side by side, half-blind to their own and each other's needs. Guayasamin's vision sometimes soars high above the country, as in his turbulent bird's-eye view of Quito (see color page). More often it swoops down for an agonizingly close look at a funeral, a prison, a prostitute. His occasional canvases of embracing lovers or mothers with their children show a growing tenderness and ability to convey the smooth with...