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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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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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