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...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...
...effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials-and in 1940 she traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Quito getting acquainted with many important policymakers south of the Rio Grande...
...June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return...
...sons of the late strong man President Leonidas Plaza of Ecuador were whooping it up last week. Reared to fast horses and bullfighting, habituated to settling disputes with gunpowder, the Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending...
...Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border into Colombia. On March 5 he strode into Quito's central police headquarters, demanded a trial. Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda. On May 23 President Arroyo del Rio ordered the disconsolate Pepe released for three days to attend the funeral of a Chilean uncle, distinguished Dr. Victor Eastman...