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...people of Ecuador," said Senator-elect Galo Plaza Lasso, 41, "are tired of traditional parties. That's why they voted...
Family Tradition. The man with the new broom is no political hack. He is a scholar who has written five volumes on Ecuador's pre-Inca history, promises nine more. His 40,000-volume library, complete with a museum, is one of the best on Ecuador's early history...
...also one of Ecuador's richest men, owns an immense Quito mansion, vast tracts of land that his family has held since colonial times, a big textile factory at Los Chillos, not far from Quito. At Los Chillos, he explains, "great-grandsons of the people who first worked for our family there" receive pieces of land to cultivate, along with some pay, in return for factory labor. On ceremonial occasions, the workers, who must go to Mass and Communion regularly, kiss Jijén's hand and even his arm up to the shoulder...
Pious Mayor Jijén feels that for years Ecuador was ruined by Liberal politicians bent on weakening the church, secularizing the schools, legalizing divorce. Then, one day in 1924, "I suddenly realized that the evil was not in our neighbor's house but our own." He entered politics. Since then he has bossed Ecuador's Conservatives. "The country needs order," he says, "with a certain directed liberty...
...elected Quito's mayor. If, after 54 years, Ecuador should go Conservative in 1948, chances are good that parchment-skinned Mayor Jijén will be Ecuador's President...