Word: ecuador
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...have a revolution here every Thursday afternoon at half-past 2, and our government is run like a nightclub," cracked Don Juan Palacios, the improbable count in Ludwig Bemelmans' 1941 travel book about Ecuador, The Donkey Inside. If the count (or Bemelmans) were to visit Ecuador this week, he might have to eat those cynical words. One of South America's backward nations has been undergoing a healthy change. Since 1950, Ecuador...
...move labor to the coast and step up interregional trade. In 1953 he started a four-year. $50 million program to add new road and rail links to the main existing connection, the old Guayaquil & Quito Railway. Now 1,100 miles of new routes are reaching out to tie Ecuador together...
Good prices for Ecuador's exports, government encouragement for farmers and investors, more than $15 million in U.S. aid and a stable currency have all helped to let backward Ecuador share belatedly in the fast economic development that other parts of South America have enjoyed since World War II. But back of all these factors is a democratic climate and relative political peace. Minor plots still pop up occasionally and are duly put down, but between them the administrations of Velasco Ibarra and his predecessor, Galo Plaza Lasso, add up to the longest period free of successful Thursday-afternoon...
...Delegates from Cuba, Mexico. Honduras and Ecuador announced that U.S. firms were strongly interested in helping build a bottle-making plant, expanding a $4,000,000 rubber plant (Firestone Tire & Rubber) to make cheap sneakers for Mexican farmers, developing a $5,000,000 building and development project to build homes for Hondurans, operating coffee plantations in Ecuador...
...hemisphere history's towering figures, Simón Bolivar, finally drove the Spanish rulers out of his homeland and went on to free the neighboring nations. Bolivar had no illusions that he had brought U.S.-style democracy to the liberated lands; he died predicting that in the Americas, "Ecuador will be the convent, Colombia the university, Venezuela the barracks." He knew his countrymen well; soldiers have ruled Venezuela through most of its history. Many of them were from the high western Andes, where to celebrate their own character, the mountain men sing...