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...Accompanied by his mother. Rose Kennedy, who is the President's official hostess while Jackie is on Cape Cod, he went out to Washington National Airport to welcome Ecuador's President Carlos Julio Arosemena. In two days of receptions, lunches and talks, the two Presidents discussed U.S.-Ecuadorian problems, but Kennedy often turned the conversation to the crisis in Peru, where Washington's stiff reaction to a military takeover was now embarrassed by the way the Peruvian brass seemed to be settling into authority without much public disorder...
...orders in the eleven American and European nations where it has sales offices. Then its plantations in Panama and Honduras were all but wiped out by a combination of wind, floods and the Panama disease, which by infecting the soil puts banana land out of cultivation almost indefinitely. Small Ecuadorian growers jumped in to capture 25% of the world banana market. Meantime, United Fruit's own share of the world market, which in 1948 stood at over 40% skidded to below 30%-though it managed to hang on to its 60% of U.S. banana sales...
...main target was Ecuador's Carlos Julio Arosemena, who, under pressure of his own military, had just made Ecuador the 15th hemisphere nation to break relations with Cuba.- Of all Latin America's Presidents, Arosemena has been probably the most sympathetic to Castro, and when the Ecuadorian took power last November, Fidel chortled that "it must have hit Washington like a 65-megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast...
...high republic of Ecuador last week was the stage for an increasingly familiar scene. In a handful of cities, mobs dragged the U.S. flag through the streets, stoned U.S.-Ecuadorian "friendship centers," set afire a U.S. consul's car. In Quito, the American embassy was stoned, and 20,000 demonstrators, chanting "Cuba, Rusia y E-cua-dor," marched to a rabble-rousing pep rally led by President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his pro-Communist Interior Minister Manuel...
...this spreads all over the map. In Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed a Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorian Youth and donned Sierra Maestra-type khaki uniforms. In Bogota, rioting pro-Castro students burned Uncle Sam in effigy...