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Angry Liberals, bent on keeping Winner Ponce out of office, staged an uprising in Manabi province, and Liberal Deputies tried to organize a no-quorum strike to prevent Congress from declaring him President-elect. Both attempts failed. Out going President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, most of the armed-forces brass and an apparent majority of run-of-the-plaza Ecuadorians wanted to see Ponce take office for the sake of constitutional order...
Political Inflammability. Along with political difficulties, Ponce will have to cope with an ailing economy and a near-empty treasury. The nation's income from exports (bananas, cacao, coffee) fell off this year. President Velasco ran up deficits by spending lavishly for public works and-to keep the army contented-for military equipment. The government owes public employees back pay, is half a year behind on loan repayments to the World Bank and the Export-Import Bank...
...Argentina's Pedro Aramburu, but engine trouble delayed them in Peru, and bad weather stalled them in Santiago, Chile. Chile's Carlos Ibanez, however, was not on hand to greet them; on his way home the Chilean President had 1) run across Ecuador's Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra at the Guayaquil airport and dawdled over a glass of champagne, and 2) landed at Lima for a chat with ailing Manuel Odria, Peru's outgoing President...
...down on the press only because it failed to live up to its own "code of honor," Bogota newsmen noted that censorship began on the eve of the President's long-postponed weekend visit to Ecuador, repaying last year's good-will visit to Bogota by President Velasco Ibarra. Just to be on the safe side, President Rojas took with him a huge retinue of 115 Cabinet ministers and officials, including all the friends and foes of consequence who might dream of plotting behind his back. Rojas installed an Acting President (his old army pal, General Gabriel Paris...
...President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President Velasco Ibarra...