Word: otavalo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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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