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...weather, rain, and fog may have hampered the efforts. She emphasized that the U.S. Embassy and the Ecuadorian government put together a highly coordinated effort to find the students, sending out search teams by foot as well. Karlan and her companions had been staying in the indigenous village of Otavalo working with local children as part of the humanitarian group Village Education Project. Her mother said that the trip was originally planned as a day hike, so the group had not brought much water or food. She said that her daughter had been traveling with fellow students each weekend. After...
...call 800-221-1944 for more information) begins July 31 with three days in Quito, where travelers eat lunch in a restaurant built on the edge of a volcanic crater, straddle the equator at the Middle of the World monument and shop at the Otavalo indigenous market. But the highlight is the seven-day cruise through the Galapagos, a living laboratory for learning about the geological forces that shaped the islands and the evolutionary pressures that molded their inhabitants, which include marine iguanas that spit out salt, giant tortoises that can weigh 500 lbs. and blue-footed boobies that...
...Anger. The revolution broke in Guayaquil. Against the Carabineros marched the Army, using U.S. Lend-Lease tanks. With the Army marched workers and students of the Democratic Front. Some 300 Guayaquil revolutionists and police were killed by shellfire; street fighting raged for eleven hours. In other cities -Riobamba, Cuenca, Otavalo-the Carabineros surrendered or joined the Democratic Front with little bloodshed. In Quito, the sleepy capital of church bells, barefoot Indians and grand vistas, high up (9,500 ft.) in the Andes, the people poured into the streets. There, too, the Army came to their side, and the Carabineros capitulated...
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