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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...
...Velasco's boys had overheard, were prepared. Just before the balloting started, pro-Velasco Army officers filled the lobbies, toying conspicuously with their revolvers and kicking their sabers about. When the electors filed in, picked Velasco rooters also glared ominously from packed galleries. At 2 a.m. voting began. One by one, to the horror of Boss Suarez, sweating Conservatives stood up and voted for reelection. It was Velasco, 43-to-10-as simple as that...
...model of this type, Bromsen points to his friend Velasco Ibarra, whom he calls "a great liberal and the most brilliant ruler in South America today...
Almost as soon as he learned of his success, Bromsen received a personal invitation from his old friend, Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador, to be a guest at the royal palace as soon as he arrives, sometime in October...
...schooling and keep the Indian in his semifeudal place, but not to sacrifice recent social and economic gains by city workers. The assembly would also choose the next Ecuadorean President. It was an even-money bet that they would not re-elect the erratic incumbent, Dr. José Maria Velasco Ibarra...