Word: ibarra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, the contrast between the coast and the mountains emphasizes the need for communications that would move labor to the coast and step up interregional trade. In 1953 he started a four-year. $50 million program to add new road and rail links to the main existing connection, the old Guayaquil & Quito Railway. Now 1,100 miles of new routes are reaching out to tie Ecuador together...
...fast economic development that other parts of South America have enjoyed since World War II. But back of all these factors is a democratic climate and relative political peace. Minor plots still pop up occasionally and are duly put down, but between them the administrations of Velasco Ibarra and his predecessor, Galo Plaza Lasso, add up to the longest period free of successful Thursday-afternoon revolutions since...
Moral Victory. In Arequipa, Peru, beaten unconscious by 82-year-old Jose Ibarra, Saturnine Garcia, 110, recovered, amiably explained the scrap: "We were chatting about events of long ago. Jose got mad because I proved that I have a better memory for dates...
...Ecuador," says President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, "is a very difficult country to govern." He should know; he is currently involved in his third try at it. The big difficulty in both of his previous terms was the armed forces. Velasco twice tangled with top commanders, who accused him of unconstitutional conduct, and twice got chucked out of his job. Last week it was Velasco v. the military again...
...they stepped from their plane. (Four were soon released.) Velasco put the mayor of the loyal city of Guayaquil into the Defense Ministry in place of Varea Dónoso. At week's end the winner and still President of Ecuador was José María Velasco Ibarra...