In Santiago, Chile, exiled ex-President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador applied to the Ecuadorian Embassy for a visa to go home. He explained that he had been proposed as candidate of the Conservative and Socialist parties in the June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return."
President Arroyo del Rio was taking no chances. Three times within the last eight...
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