"dxAce" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:
"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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Yeah, even I want to hear about how you defend democracy by leaving
the conflict.

For more than half a year, my colleague at Diario El Tiempo and I
voiced
opposition to the military junta in Ecuador by talking and writing
about
the promised return to democracy. He disappeared (or was disappeared)
and
I was given 24 hours to leave... the fellows in uniforms had rifles,
so
there was not a "road to appeal" available.
The heroes I know, who risked life and property to defend democracy
took up arms and brought the fight to those who would challenge
democracy.

And some took up themightiest sword, the pen.


But in each case, they took the fight to the enemy. Leaving
doesn't
risk, nor does it defend.



There is no risk in leaving the fight behind.

I would get a good chuckle out of finding out how you think I could have
remained, given I was escorted to the airport; the intent was to silence
the
radio stations by nationalization, not to silence me personally.

So, regale us yet again with your tale of selling the radio stations which
were
nationalized.

I did not ever sell any station in Ecuador. The government wished to
nationalize the station group. In the 24 hours I had before being put on a
plane (it was the era when there were not flights every day to the US out of
Quito, which was then only a daylight airport) I had my attorney (Lic.
Benjamín Cevallos assisted by Lic. Segundo Maiguashca) transfer most of the
stations to an employee cooperative, headed by Ulpiano Orozco. Since the
junta felt it was " a people's government" and was similar to that of Gral.
Velasco in Perú, they could not take the stations away from "the workers"
which was my intent... both to save their jobs and to keep the government
from closing the stations. The shares of two frequencies were transferred to
my daughter's name, and the whole deal made contingent on this last step,
under the hope the government would leave the whole arrangement alone due to
the adverse publicity messing with an employee cooperative would bring.

Since I had a VP / General Manager position in what is now the US' 13th
largest market within 2 weeks of leaving, I came out both alive and
employed. The experience of building a dozen stations in just a few years,
learning how to sell them and manage them, was of immense value... and given
the economic conditions of Ecuador today, probably as positive as the whole
thing was negative.