Word: quito
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOUSDEBES SJ. San Gregorio Quito, Ecuador...
Arriving in Quito, Ecuador's Foreign Minister faced expulsion from his strongly anti-Communist party. In Rio the anti-Castro press was in an uproar and a group of Deputies wanted to haul Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas on the carpet to explain himself. Nowhere was the clamor louder than in Argentina, where the outraged leaders of the three military services threatened to overturn the government of President Arturo Frondizi...
...finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash for asylum in the Mexican embassy in Quito, thus paving the way for a leftist takeover and plunging his country into a crisis similar to Jãnio Quadros' abrupt flight from Brazil...
Rocks & Bullets. In the big port city of Guayaquil, in Andean towns, and finally in the capital of Quito itself, angry students and workers raced through cobbled streets stoning police and overturning cars. Egging on the mobs were the usual Communist agitators and one important political figure, Ecuador's Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena, 42, an aristocrat turned leftist, who pointedly ignored Adlai Stevenson's visit last June, flew off instead to Moscow and returned calling Nikita Khrushchev "my friend." From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator...
...recital of U.S. sins -but this time the Cuban note was marked by what sounded like genuine alarm. The U.S., charged Roa, is giving all-out support to a new drive by anti-Castro Cubans to throw Castro out be fore the conference of American foreign ministers in Quito May 24. If that fails, Roa said, U.S. -supported anti-Castro forces would invade Cuba with the intention of setting up in a liberated section of the country a provisional government that could be recognized by the U.S. and given open support...