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Peaked Gables. Last week the old argument was again alive-and this time because of findings made by wealthy Emilio Estrada of Guayaquil, Ecuador, who dabbles deeply in archaeology even while running a thriving auto and appliance business. He has interested himself in Ecuador's northern coastal region because of vaguely oriental objects previously found there. In 1956, after learning diggers' techniques from Archaeologists Clifford Evans and Betty Meggers of the U.S.'s Smithsonian Institution, he began concentrating on the coastal town of Bahia de Caraquez where, according to ancient legends, a people called the Caras landed...
...Roman Catholic who dressed in black, went daily to Mass and revered Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ; he believed that "only through force may good be attained." But he also despised militarism, gave the country a uniform currency, the first highway between mountainous Quito and seaside Guayaquil, established an efficient treasury, schools, an observatory, and provided stability so that the country could grow. Yet Garcia ruled that non-Catholics might not be citizens, subordinated the state to the church, in 1873 solemnly dedicated Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A leather worker hacked him to death...
...businessman (Panama hats) named Eloy Alfaro came to power, began a half century of Liberal Party control, marked by anticlericalism, e.g., confiscation of huge church estates, enactment of some of South America's first divorce laws. He built the buckety Quito-Guayaquil railroad. Then in 1912, Eloy Alfaro overreached for a third term, and the army handed him over to the fickle mob, which tore him limb from limb...
Three days later, Guayaquil high-school and university students went out on strike in solidarity with the Portoviejo victims, only to run into tough cops who thwacked them with sabers, then used guns. They fought the police for five bloody hours, until the army moved in, fired the police chief, sent the cops back to barracks. Toll: six more killed...
Unleashed, the chain reaction of violence had one more stage to go. Next day. Guayaquil's slum dwellers, bitter over their poverty amidst Ecuador's growing prosperity (TIME. Feb. 23). came out looting, burning, battling soldiers for another night before martial law and exhaustion put an end to the outbreak that resentful Draftee García unwittingly touched...