Word: ibarra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 jail last December, ever since had been plotting the Dictator's overthrow...
Dictator Arroyo del Rio resigned, sought refuge in the Colombian Embassy. A provisional junta promptly invited Velasco Ibarra to take over. The exile promptly accepted, rode into Quito in a Lend-Lease jeep. With vivas and flowers, 50,000 Quitenos welcomed their new President. On a balcony overlooking Independence Square, Velasco Ibarra proclaimed...
...Principal opposition candidate in Ecuador's June election will be tallish, baldish Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, leader of the newly organized coalition Alianza Democratica (Democratic Alliance). A none-too-successful President (1934-35), he has wide support among the lower classes, students, others who do not like President Carlos A. Arroyo...
...Velasco Ibarra has one disadvantage: he is not in Ecuador. The President has forbidden him to re-enter the country, from which he was exiled in 1940. Undiscouraged, Velasco Ibarra recently set up headquarters at Pasto across the Colombian border. From that point he conducts a fly-by-night campaign by means of furtive messengers. His position with the voters is apparently strong; but fearing electoral fraud, he is said to be hoping for Army support, a near-necessity for a would-be President of Ecuador...
President Arroyo del Rio was taking no chances. Three times within the last eight years Ibarra had been involved in revolutionary uprisings. Once in 1940, when Arroyo del Rio was winning the elections, Ibarra staged a coup which almost succeeded. In 1935 the Army toppled Velasco on charges of dictatorship, but this did not hurt the ex-President's popularity with many Ecuadorians. Last week a group of sailors in the Island of Puna staged a revolt in his name which was put down by force of arms...