Word: ibarra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rump. Ecuador's 4,400,000 people earn a per-capita annual income of only $165, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; by no coincidence only 13 elected governments have finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash for asylum in the Mexican embassy in Quito, thus paving the way for a leftist takeover and plunging his country into a crisis similar...
...Divine Mob." For Velasco Ibarra it was an old story. First elected in 1934, he has been President four times, has completed only one term. A spellbinding orator who swings from right to left to suit his audience, he was elected last year by the votes and demonstrations of what he calls "the divine mob." But in office, he did little to ease Ecuador's chronic problems. Promised campaigns for land reform, slum clearance, roads and industrial development were slow in coming; living costs rose 30% in six months, wages failed to keep pace. The final straw...
...Ecuador's Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena, 42, an aristocrat turned leftist, who pointedly ignored Adlai Stevenson's visit last June, flew off instead to Moscow and returned calling Nikita Khrushchev "my friend." From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator." As the mobs grew more threatening, police fired on the rampaging demonstrators; in Guayaquil one day they killed eight students, a newspaper reporter and two day laborers...
...working feverishly to line up hemisphere support for an emergency meeting of the OAS Foreign Ministers to deal with Castro. But last week Ecuador's Foreign Minister Jose Chiriboga, a strong proponent of collective OAS punitive action, was forced to resign under pressure from President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, who is busily courting Castro these days...
...obvious target of the mobs, partly because it has become the standard target of Latin leftists, partly because anti-U.S. Interior Minister Araújo was pulling some of the strings. At week's end Araújo found he had gone too far, even for Velasco Ibarra, who announced he had accepted his deputy's "resignation." Unfortunately, Araújo's work could not so easily be erased. The biggest gainers in the land squabble were Fidel Castro and Soviet Russia, who guarantee nothing but total confusion...