Word: mancheno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copper-cheeked sentry fired one shot into the night air. Then the guard stood aside, and a delegation of army officers strode into Quito's gloomy presidential palace. Inside, brusque Colonel Carlos Mancheno, Minister of Defense, told President José Mariá Velasco Ibarra that the army had finally turned against...
...once in his voluble life, the ex-law professor, whom Ecuadorians - call "El Loco," said nothing. He resigned his powers to Colonel Mancheno and flew off in an army trimotored Junkers to Colombia and exile. It was a time for Velasco to say: "This is where I came in;" an army coup had chucked him out of the Ecuadorian presidency in 1935, a revolution had brought him back from Colombian exile nine years later to make him President again...
Last week's revolution was a pushover. Nobody was shot, nobody arrested. But Colonel Mancheno, appointing himself President, made it clear that there would be no conservatives in his Government...
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