Word: politecnica
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...trained engineer who served as president ofthe Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral inthe early 1970s. Parodi said that Ecuador mustnegotiate alternative repayment methods to avoidthrowing its budget into disarray and slashingsocial spending...
...young military cadets had engaged the attentions of La Locha's choicest residents. Waving pistols and machine guns, the Liberators dragged the unhappy cadets into the corridors, forced them to strip and dance an incongruous cancan. When the cadets were finally freed, they dashed off to the Eseuela Politecnica (Guatemala's West Point), aroused their fellow cadets and told them of the latest indignity visited upon the regular army by the makeshift militia with which Colonel Castillo Armas seized power from Guatemala's pro-Communist government five weeks...
...first place by flinging wide the palace doors and welcoming Communists into his government, had plenty to think about. But he may have taken a moment to recall that Castillo Armas had once been a school mate, a fellow graduate of the country's West Point, the Escuela Politecnica...