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Except for uniformed police and soldiers, some 3,000 shivering high-school and university students were the only figures moving on the streets of Quito one morning last week. The students were there to take the first scientifically organized census in Ecuador's history. The police and soldiers were there to keep all other Quiteños in their homes until the census was completed...
Debonair Galo Plaza and his "Democratic Civic Movement" had won an unexpected victory in last week's congressional elections. Organized just three weeks ago, running only in Quito, Ecuador's newest party had racked up a two-thirds majority, elected two Senators and picked off four out of Quito's five Deputies' seats. The Conservatives, hitherto dominant in the capital, were routed. Jubilantly, the new coalition of liberals, leftists and anticlericals set their sights for next year's presidential contest...
Back in Ecuador in 1933, he settled down, married a local society belle-and found the family fortunes in low estate. He proceeded to make the vast Plaza ranch north of Quito a model for Ecuador, brought in the country's first combine, six tractors, and blooded Holstein-Friesian herds. In 1938 he became Defense Minister. Galo Plaza quelled one students' strike by ringing the university with troops, entering and dragging out the two ringleaders by the scruff of their necks, then persuading the rest to quit...
...also one of Ecuador's richest men, owns an immense Quito mansion, vast tracts of land that his family has held since colonial times, a big textile factory at Los Chillos, not far from Quito. At Los Chillos, he explains, "great-grandsons of the people who first worked for our family there" receive pieces of land to cultivate, along with some pay, in return for factory labor. On ceremonial occasions, the workers, who must go to Mass and Communion regularly, kiss Jijén's hand and even his arm up to the shoulder...
...elected Quito's mayor. If, after 54 years, Ecuador should go Conservative in 1948, chances are good that parchment-skinned Mayor Jijén will be Ecuador's President...