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...days before the election a secret message sped across the country from the underground Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from...
...People's Anger. The revolution broke in Guayaquil. Against the Carabineros marched the Army, using U.S. Lend-Lease tanks. With the Army marched workers and students of the Democratic Front. Some 300 Guayaquil revolutionists and police were killed by shellfire; street fighting raged for eleven hours. In other cities -Riobamba, Cuenca, Otavalo-the Carabineros surrendered or joined the Democratic Front with little bloodshed. In Quito, the sleepy capital of church bells, barefoot Indians and grand vistas, high up (9,500 ft.) in the Andes, the people poured into the streets. There, too, the Army came to their side...
...acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches to the Panama Canal...
...timetable basis results have been terrific: commercial planes fly daily from Miami to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires, against only four flights weekly two years ago; Santiago to Buenos Aires service has jumped from four to seven flights weekly; there is daily service on Ecuador's Guayaquil-Quito beat v. only three times weekly under Nazi operation...
Last week, from Guayaquil jail, Captain Félix Guerrero announced his engagement to Señorita Julia Esther Briones. Said Julia: "Our engagement ring is of steel, instead of gold, as a symbol of the durability of our love...