Word: quito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pawns in the game," says Johannah Barry, executive director of the U.S.-based Charles Darwin Foundation, which raises money for the research station. "What's going to happen the next time?" International tour operators are wondering the same thing; they are scheduled to meet this week with officials in Quito to find out how the government proposes to resolve the disputes...
...some point, given a change to a situation of total war, the United Nations could see grounds for international intervention. Attacks on Quito and other civilian centers or wartime atrocities would provide humanitarian grounds for forcing an end to the hostilities. Hopefully, the U.S. would then join a multinational force, despite the irrelevance of the conflict to its own particular interests...
...American countries defined disputed boundaries between the two nations. Almost half of Ecuador's previous territory was ceded to Peru, but the treaty left the 78-km tract in the jungle undemarcated when the document was ratified in 1948. Ecuadorians never fully accepted their defeat, and by 1960 the Quito government had repudiated the agreement. Minor border skirmishes have occurred ever since, usually around the treaty's Jan. 29 anniversary. In 1981 the potshots turned into a serious five-day battle; in 1991 no shots were fired, but diplomatic relations were sorely tested after Peru built a military base...
...Simon Bolivar, but it can also be read as allegory. Having cast off the shackles of empire, tried to found a rudimentary democracy and earned the title of the Liberator, Bolivar dies in defeat. What he wants most is a single South American republic reaching from Caracas to Quito. But the passions of the revolution he led give way to those of separatism that he cannot control. His "golden dream of continental unity" becomes an embarrassing abstraction to his people, who begin following regional leaders instead...