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...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...
...Santiago, Chile, exiled ex-President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador applied to the Ecuadorian Embassy for a visa to go home. He explained that he had been proposed as candidate of the Conservative and Socialist parties in the June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return...
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...
Cheered by the news of an approaching settlement of Mexico's religious problem. General Goroztieta had summoned his followers to the Hacienda Ibarra, had advised them to disband. Later he heard mass and joined the irreconcilable remnant of his army...