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...mountains between Guayaquil and Quito, where rain had been pouring for a fortnight, there were heavy landslides. Telegraph lines were broken, train service suspended. Prices in Guayaquil skyrocketed. President Baquerizo Moreno's granddaughter applied the raw flesh of a Guayaquil beef to her blackened...
Swedish matches lit the fires of revolt which ran Isidro Ayora out of the Presidential Palace at Quito fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 31). First as Provisional President, since 1929 as Constitutional President, he had been Ecuador's chief executive for the past five years. Ironically, the same matches which burned him last week helped secure his position two years ago. At that time he got a loan from Swedish Match Co. (Kreuger & Toll) in return for granting the firm a national monopoly. Not only did President Ayora grant a monopoly, but he agreed to pay out of the Ecuadorean...
...World Wide Christian Couriers, an evangelical group (Paul Rader of Chicago's Gospel Tabernacle, president), seem to have stolen a march on other foreign missionaries. Through Clarence W. Jones of Oklahoma City, missionary scouting in Ecuador, they gained a 25-year permit for a powerful station HCJB at Quito, Ecuador's capital. Programs will be evangelical and educational. A concession to the Ecuadorian Government: four hours a week for agricultural data, weather reports, political news...
...legally Ecuadorian is actually within a "sphere of influence" impudently maintained by adjoining and militant Peru. Here again, as in Colombia, the factor of altitudes is vital and decisive. Gigantic parallel ranges of mountains, many over four miles high, cut off the nominally sovereign scions of Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly and simply taken. Quito perches at an altitude of two miles, has a Savoy Hotel, steep streets, abundant flowers, about one hour of rain almost every day in the year, and-wonder of wonders-a rail connection...
...scenic grandeur the perpetually snowcapped peaks of Ecuador easily eclipse the Swiss Alps-but only hardiest humans have ever glimpsed Ecuador's grandest vastitudes. Historically the city and the civilization at Quito antedate Columbus and hark back to glorious Inca times. Politically the Republic of Ecuador has been unfortunate. President after President has seized office by violence. Eleven Constitutions have been adopted. Today President Isidro Ayora knows that he is at the beck of an aristocratic and military dictatorship, headed by the potent General Gobez...