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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...
...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...
...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...