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

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"Ecuador," says President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, "is a very difficult country to govern."

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Not until the military threatened him with the same fate as Velasco Ibarra did he agree to sever relations with Cuba.

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For Velasco Ibarra it was an old story.

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President Jos� Maria Velasco Ibarra has a record of social progress, but he also faces a feudal oligarchy so reluctant to change that his reforms may come too hard and too late.

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