Word: ecuadorian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That the Peruvians "headed for Portovelo where the Ecuadorian Government runs a gold mine" is simply a fantastic tale. Peru has done nothing except repel an aggression and take possession of the places where it started...
...agreement and unknown to the rest of the world. The Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes. Just twelve Peruvian parachutists took Machala and seven took Puerto Bolivar. They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar...
...Peruvians headed for Portovelo, where the Ecuadorian Government runs a gold mine without which it would probably collapse. Last week it seemed unlikely that Ecuador could stop the advance. Unless theoretical Good Neighbors of both did something about it fast, the bigger of these Bad Neighbors might solve the boundary dispute by swallowing the smaller fellow next door. And that might start grabbing all over South America, to the detriment of hemisphere solidarity...
...Carlos Concha, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Peruvian Senate, and Dr. Homero Viteri Lafronte, onetime Ecuadorian Minister to the U.S. hastened to Washington. During the seven-hour flight from Miami to Washington on the same plane they showed no sign of recognizing each other. In the steaming jungle that neither country really wants Peruvians and Ecuadorians kept on shooting at one another...
...proffer their good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue of Simon Bolivar and sang the Ecuadorian national anthem...