Word: ecuadorean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's share, his Agriculture Minister, holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy, explained to a friend: "Arbenz gave his Communist pals 10,000 quetzales apiece before he quit, but he did not even tell us he was going to resign." Arbenz probably took most of the loot into the Mexican embassy. Now his problem is to get away with it. Even if he gets a safe-conduct out of the country, the new government, under the rules of asylum, could search his baggage and seize any boodle. But a diplomatic cut of the loot to the right hands might...