EC–19. Editorial Note
In despatch 135 from Quito, September 26, 1960, the Embassy reported that students demonstrating over Ecuador’s border dispute with Peru stoned the U.S. Consulate General at Guayaquil and damaged a staff car on September 22. According to the Embassy’s report, the police intervened promptly. (722.00(W)/9–2660) A classified report entitled “Assaults and Other Acts against United States Personnel and Installations Abroad, 1960–1965” (Department of State Historical Office Research Project No. 782, February 1967), page 10, contains further information on this incident. Additional reportage on the demonstrations is in Department of State file 122.437.