Word: ecuador
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...CHILD I began the habit of reading backwards the posters in the buses. It was fun, but it has yet to give me more insight than the price of pinto beans in Ecuador...
...opening, the Soviets immediately dispatched a five-man economic mission to Lima with promises of economic aid and help in running Peru's oil industry. It is an open question exactly how much aid the Soviets could render, but their apparent willingness to help Peru has spurred Ecuador to invite the Soviet mission to drop by for talks and has caused Bolivia to take a more active interest in Soviet offers...
Peru lost an estimated $40 million, chiefly in cotton, when drought struck six of its 24 departments early last year; it allocated another $10 million in relief and public-works projects to employ suffering campesinos. Ecuador saw parts of Manabi and Loja provinces charred, with an estimated $50 million in losses, mainly in coffee and rice. In Argentina's Patagonia region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does...
...19th and 20th-in the Sierra Club's devoted campaign in behalf of conservation. The textual message is sorely understated, but the incomparable color photography and reproduction make the point emphatically. The wildlife and sheer natural beauty of the Galapagos Islands (600 miles off the coast of Ecuador) inspired Herman Melville, who is quoted in the text, and Charles Darwin, who found in the ecology there the laws of natural selection that led to Origin of Species. It is to be hoped that Eliot Porter's fine pictures will not conjure up thoughts of a Galapagos Hilton...
...require penitents to teach illiterates how to read and write as penance for their sins. In Panama, a popular American priest, Father Leo Mahon, has successfully combined Peace Corps techniques with preaching to help convert a slum named San Miguelito into a neat and hygienic community. The church in Ecuador is distributing 120,000 acres of its own land to peasants...