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Velasco, alarmed, climbed into his private car at 10p.m., with only his naval aide and a civilian friend. Driving all night on the perilous, 300-mile road that swings down through the Andes from the capital at Quito, he reached the Pacific seaport of Guayaquil. Seven top officers ordered troops to occupy Quito communications centers, then flew off after him. But the President's lead gave him time enough to strike a deal with the Guayaquil military command. By dumping Nebot, he persuaded the Guayaquil garrison to arrest the pursuing officers for "promoting disorder," when they stepped from their...
TIME, they discovered, is often mealtime fare. In Guayaquil, Ecuador, Stephens walked into a hotel dining room for lunch and found about 20 people seated-four of them reading the new issue of TIME. At Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Hotel, Alberse saw one family group chattering at the dinner table, except for the father, who was reading TIME. At another table, two men shared one copy, discussing it story by story...
...biology at the Sorbonne in the early '30s, likes to say that he "abandoned the scientific laboratory of biology for the human laboratory of politics." Sixteen months ago, Politico Guevara, a former cabinet minister, tried to come to power by arms. His revolution began at dawn in Guayaquil, Ecuador's second city (pop. 216,000) and major seaport. It ended 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...
Momenta's call, nominated Guevara for mayor of Guayaquil and made his wife honorary president of the party. Last week Guevara overwhelmingly copped the election, with Plaza's candidate out of sight in third place...
Guevara Moreno appeals to Ecuador's 60?-a-day rice-mill laborers, the inflation-struck white-collar class, the rank & file of the army and the wretched unemployed living in the split-bamboo shacks hidden behind Guayaquil's impressive masonry waterfront buildings. Plaza's tolerant democracy, though it provides the free press and elections Guevara needs, is not enough for Guevara, who preaches: "We have in this country a minority in a magnificent situation and a majority in a desperate situation. And Plaza's government, it's for the minority, no?" He calls his followers...