No patriots of Ecuador are more courageous, more gallant or more troublesome than the three rich and handsome sons of the late President General Don Leonidas Plaza.* Last week the eldest son, Galo Plaza, onetime Minister of Defense, was in exile in California. Once urged to declare himself dictator, he is now willing to be "drafted" as President if Ecuadorian politics will only settle down. The second son, Captain Leonidas Plaza, who earned a captain's commission in a bayonet charge during the war with Peru, was in Garcia Moreno penitentiary under 16...
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