Velasco Ibarra

[ be-lahs-kaw ee-vahr-rah ]

noun

1. Jo·sé Marí·a [haw-, se, mah-, ree, -ah], 1893–1979, Ecuadorean political leader: president 1934–35, 1944–47, 1952–56, 1960–61, 1968–72.

Example Sentences

Local chroniclers still come to pay their respects and ask him about the time he founded the first high school to serve his parish or paved the first road to Intag with then-President José María Velasco Ibarra.

From Slate

More than 1,000 soldiers and policemen were deemed necessary to guarantee Rockefeller and his team of advisers tranquillity for their talks with President Jos� Maria Velasco Ibarra and a dozen groups of assorted political and business leaders.

From Time Magazine Archive

From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator."

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week President Jos� Mar�a Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm.

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For Velasco Ibarra it was an old story.

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