Word: velascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copper-cheeked sentry fired one shot into the night air. Then the guard stood aside, and a delegation of army officers strode into Quito's gloomy presidential palace. Inside, brusque Colonel Carlos Mancheno, Minister of Defense, told President José Mariá Velasco Ibarra that the army had finally turned against...
...once in his voluble life, the ex-law professor, whom Ecuadorians - call "El Loco," said nothing. He resigned his powers to Colonel Mancheno and flew off in an army trimotored Junkers to Colombia and exile. It was a time for Velasco to say: "This is where I came in;" an army coup had chucked him out of the Ecuadorian presidency in 1935, a revolution had brought him back from Colombian exile nine years later to make him President again...
...Velasco took office the second time proclaiming his "profoundly leftist soul," but soon the country swung right and Velasco swung with it. This burned up the army, one of the few in Latin America with longtime leftist sympathies. In addition to its other failings, the Velasco Government had done little to combat the country's postwar inflation, which is one of the highest in the hemisphere. Last week the Sucre, which was once a worker's daily wage, stood at 13 to the dollar...
...never will." Fellow diplomats got to know him as a genial, hard-drinking six-footer who preferred, in the Spanish phrase, "to talk with his pants off" (i.e., frankly). But he worked well with U.S. diplomats at San Francisco and Chapultepec. In 1946 he resigned in disapproval of President Velasco Ibarra's erratic domestic policies. Last week, Ecuadorians heard that he might not take his Senate seat, but declare himself at once as a candidate for President...
...tight little valley high in the Andes, the 400-year-old capital city of Quito (pop. 174,000) was astir with a new kind of bustle. Its Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...