Word: ibarra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words about Ecuador: ". . . looted for centuries by 'practical' rulers." Allow me to protest. You have been badly misinformed. Not a single president or dictator in my country has taken advantage of his position to enrich himself. Every one of them . . . has been an honest man. Dr. Velasco Ibarra, indeed, speaks frequently about graft from his predecessors as a political trick to impress the mob. It is one of his many low political tricks...
Years ago, Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, now President of Ecuador, tried to learn accounting in a humble government job. His boss, according to an Ecuador legend, put him in charge of the petty-cash box. "Look," he said. "On this page, the credit side, write down everything that comes in. On the other page, the debit side, write everything that goes...
Last year Ecuador's freely elected Constituent Assembly chose a popular New Dealing President, tall, professorial José Maria Velasco Ibarra. But when the Assembly turned to its second task, framing a new constitution, it produced a national crisis. A strong left bloc in the Assembly led by Communist Pedro Saad proposed to change Ecuador's highly feudal economy into a socialist state...
Nothing quite like it had ever happened before in Ecuador. In a speech before the town council at Cuenca. Alfonso Pena Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...
...half-past two and our Government is run like a nightclub." But last week's uprising, which gave the country its 14th President in 15 years, was more than a nightclub brawl. A popular movement with democratic aspirations had overthrown an unpopular government with dictatorial inclinations. Velasco Ibarra still had to prove that he would be a practicing democrat. After he was elected President in 1934, Ecuador's politicians found him a difficult and somewhat messianic man who talked about despoiling grafters, pushing economic reform, and ridding the world of fascism. With Army help, they forced...