Daybreak over Ecuador is a historical narrative of the first protestant foreign missionaries to attempt to enter Ecuador after the lessening of religious control in the country. Ecuador was the last Latin American country to open its doors to protestant missions. Those who dared to come faced hostility and deprivation. This is the country where a native indigenous person had to apply for permission to dress like a Spaniard, and an Ecuadorian was not a citizen if he was not a Catholic. Here is where a customs official boasted that "as long as Mount Chimborazo stands the Bible will not enter...