Word: ecuador
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...various beds in the suite tumbled the Ambassador to Ecuador, the Minister of Labor, the President's attorney, his aide-de-camp, a nephew, and the President's youngest son, 25-year-old Princeton man Fernando Lopez Michelsen. They all got dressed, arranged themselves comfortably about the sitting room and tried to appear at ease. The President and his party chatted pleasantly on harmless topics, watching the rifles...
...days before the election a secret message sped across the country from the underground Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from...
Under the fist of her dictatorial Government, Ecuador seethed. Suave, power-loving President Carlos Arroyo del Rio had decreed a national election on June 2-3. But everyone in the little Andean republic expected it to be a fraud. The Government had carefully exiled, outlawed or imprisoned the leaders of the opposing Democratic Front. It had strengthened its Carabinero (police) garrisons in the chief cities. By hook or crook it intended...
...gave the country its 14th President in 15 years, was more than a nightclub brawl. A popular movement with democratic aspirations had overthrown an unpopular government with dictatorial inclinations. Velasco Ibarra still had to prove that he would be a practicing democrat. After he was elected President in 1934, Ecuador's politicians found him a difficult and somewhat messianic man who talked about despoiling grafters, pushing economic reform, and ridding the world of fascism. With Army help, they forced him to resign after a year in office...
...President James Hill jr. proudly announced that his company was about to deal the Nazis an even shrewder clout. At the express request of the U.S. Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer aspirin cross.* Thereafter, the trademarks will be kept off the market and German exporters will be forced to promote brand-new trade names...