Velasco Ibarra
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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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He got the top job after Velasco Ibarra proved powerless to curb runaway inflation and left-led strikes, and was turned out by the military.
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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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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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"Give me a balcony in each town ind I shall take possession of Ecuador," Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra once cried from exile.
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