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...President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, the contrast between the coast and the mountains emphasizes the need for communications that would move labor to the coast and step up interregional trade. In 1953 he started a four-year. $50 million program to add new road and rail links to the main existing connection, the old Guayaquil & Quito Railway. Now 1,100 miles of new routes are reaching out to tie Ecuador together...
...belatedly in the fast economic development that other parts of South America have enjoyed since World War II. But back of all these factors is a democratic climate and relative political peace. Minor plots still pop up occasionally and are duly put down, but between them the administrations of Velasco Ibarra and his predecessor, Galo Plaza Lasso, add up to the longest period free of successful Thursday-afternoon revolutions since...
...Ecuador," says President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, "is a very difficult country to govern." He should know; he is currently involved in his third try at it. The big difficulty in both of his previous terms was the armed forces. Velasco twice tangled with top commanders, who accused him of unconstitutional conduct, and twice got chucked out of his job. Last week it was Velasco v. the military again...
...crisis started a month ago, when Velasco's Minister of Economy Jaime Nebot made a slighting reference to a high army officer. Incensed at this challenge to military prestige, other officers demanded that the President fire Nebot. Velasco balked, so the armed forces persuaded Defense Minister Reinaldo Varea Dónoso, himself a lieutenant colonel, to resign in protest. Then, one night last week, the commanders redoubled their pressure, insisting that Velasco not only oust Nebot but restore Varea Dónoso...
...Velasco, alarmed, climbed into his private car at 10p.m., with only his naval aide and a civilian friend. Driving all night on the perilous, 300-mile road that swings down through the Andes from the capital at Quito, he reached the Pacific seaport of Guayaquil. Seven top officers ordered troops to occupy Quito communications centers, then flew off after him. But the President's lead gave him time enough to strike a deal with the Guayaquil military command. By dumping Nebot, he persuaded the Guayaquil garrison to arrest the pursuing officers for "promoting disorder," when they stepped from their...