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Foreign Minister José Vincente Trujillo had a wonderful time in the U.S.A. First he took a wife: 33-year-old Mary Louise Wellensiek of Pomona, Calif., whom he had met about a year ago at a presidential reception in Quito. Then he had a friendly chat with Harry Truman, came away impressed by the President's "grasp of modern and ancient Ecuadorian history." Finally last week, as his North American honeymoon ended, Trujillo announced that he had wangled two $4 million loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, to complete modernization of the water systems of Ecuador...
When Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly met in Quito last fortnight to name the country's next President, the Conservative majority was all primed to sack dictatorial President José Maria Velasco Ibarra. Conservative Boss Mariano Suárez Veintimilla had passed the word...
...Latin America Carnival still flourished. In Rio de Janeiro, the army guarded tumultuous streets of richly costumed revelers against excesses. In Quito, Ecuadoreans indulged in a week's frenzy of drenching each other (and especially policemen) with water-bombs and buckets, strewed flour on passersby...
...North of Quito, an old, worn-out locomotive huffed and puffed its way through steep mountain passes, carrying faithful Quitenos on their annual pilgrimage to the Virgin's upland shrine. Eating, singing and chattering pilgrims jammed the seats and aisles of the ancient wooden coaches, clung to roofs, windows and couplings...
FEDERICO PÁEZ Former President of Ecuador Quito, Ecuador...