Word: galo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give me a balcony in each town ind I shall take possession of Ecuador," Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra once cried from exile. Last week, having harangued the country from balconies all over Ecuador, Velasco Ibarra was elected President to succeed U.S.-educated Galo Plaza Lasso...
...Ecuadorian voters showed the same distrust for the nation's two historic parties as they did four years ago when Galo Plaza swept into office as a coalition candidate. They put their faith in Velasco's spellbinding personal appeal; humble people flocked to him. Explained a market woman: "Taita [Papa] Velasco understands the poor because he is poor." Velasco owns little property, lives austerely. He describes his policy as "neo-liberalism," which he fancies as a kind of "third position" between the "extremes" of capitalism and Communism...
Ecuador. After four Presidents in eleven months, Galo Plaza Lasso, a U.S.-born democrat, was chosen President by orderly elections in 1948. Chances are 50-50 that he can survive until August, his term...
...with his humiliating arrest a couple of hours later by the army officers he thought would join him. By 4 p.m. the same day, he was in the massive old jail in Quito, Ecuador's capital, 290 miles away. Last July, after Guevara had served a year, President Galo Plaza Lasso got Congress to pardon and free...
Plaza's clemency did not win over Guevara. With his comely young wife Norma, who had twice tried unsuccessfully to help her husband break out of jail, Guevara resumed publishing a lurid weekly called Momenta, and banged away at Galo Plaza. Guevara's old party, the ragtag Concentration of Popular Forces, rallied...