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...crisis started a month ago, when Velasco's Minister of Economy Jaime Nebot made a slighting reference to a high army officer. Incensed at this challenge to military prestige, other officers demanded that the President fire Nebot. Velasco balked, so the armed forces persuaded Defense Minister Reinaldo Varea Dónoso, himself a lieutenant colonel, to resign in protest. Then, one night last week, the commanders redoubled their pressure, insisting that Velasco not only oust Nebot but restore Varea Dónoso...
...Andes from the capital at Quito, he reached the Pacific seaport of Guayaquil. Seven top officers ordered troops to occupy Quito communications centers, then flew off after him. But the President's lead gave him time enough to strike a deal with the Guayaquil military command. By dumping Nebot, he persuaded the Guayaquil garrison to arrest the pursuing officers for "promoting disorder," when 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...
Charles IV sent José Jaudenes Nebot, a comisario de los ejércitos, or army quartermaster, to Washington on a diplomatic mission. There he met and married British Aristocrat Mathilde Stoughton Fletcher. They returned to Spain in 1812, and Jose died that year. Mathilde followed 24 years later. To their children they left an enormous U.S. estate. Remittances were sent from the States for 25 years, then stopped. Why, no one quite knew...
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