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Velasco Ibarra

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[be-lahs-kaw ee-vahr-rah] / bɛˈlɑs kɔ iˈvɑr rɑ /

noun

  1. José María 1893–1979, Ecuadorean political leader: president 1934–35, 1944–47, 1952–56, 1960–61, 1968–72.


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But distance seems to lend enchantment to Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra.

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He himself was the playboy offspring of a rich Guayaquil banker, and rode into the vice-presidency in 1960 on the coattails of President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra.

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In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed.

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At 77, Ecuador's President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra is indisputably his country's most successful politician.

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In Santiago, Chile, exiled ex-President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador applied to the Ecuadorian Embassy for a visa to go home.

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