Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez was an Ecuadorian political figure and architect. He served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978. In 1951,he co-founded a political party,the Social Christian Party. In 1991,he left the Social Christian Party and formed a new conservative group,the Republican Union Party (PUR),before running for president for the third time in 1992.
JoséMaría Velasco Ibarra was an Ecuadorian politician. He became president of Ecuador five times,in 1934–1935,1944–1947,1952–1956,1960–1961,and 1968–1972,and only in 1952–1956 did he complete a full term. In his four other terms he was removed by military force,and several times he was installed as president through a military coup.
AbdaláJaime Bucaram Ortiz is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who was President of Ecuador from August 10,1996,to February 6,1997. As President,AbdaláBucaram was nicknamed "El Loco Que Ama" and was removed from office after being declared mentally unfit to rule by the National Congress of Ecuador on February 12,1997. Bucaram claims innocence now that all cases against him have been dismissed. He lived in exile in Panama under Political Asylum laws,then returned to Ecuador in 2017 when the charges against him expired.
Luis Benjamín Cordero y Crespo was President of Ecuador 1 July 1892 to 16 April 1895.
León Esteban Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra,known in the Ecuadorian media as LFC or more simply by his composed surname (Febres-Cordero),was the 35th President of Ecuador,serving a four-year term from 10 August 1984 to 10 August 1988. During his presidency he sought to introduce market-oriented reforms,and also led a security crackdown on a guerrilla group named ¡Alfaro Vive,Carajo!.
Nicanor Alejandro Serrano Aguilar was an Ecuadorian politician and sports leader.
Cynthia Fernanda Viteri Jiménez de Villamar is an Ecuadorian lawyer,journalist and politician. On March 24,2019,she was elected Mayor of Guayaquil,the largest city in Ecuador,in the sectional elections of Ecuador for a term from May 14,2019 until May 14,2024. She was the presidential candidate for Partido Social Cristiano in the 2017 presidential elections,and was a candidate in the 2006 presidential elections of Ecuador and finished fifth. Between 1998 and 2007 she was a member of the National Congress. In 2009 she became a member of the National Assembly.
PAIS Alliance is a centre-left social democratic political party in Ecuador. As of 2016,it had 979,691 members.
The Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly was a 2007–2008 constitutional assembly in Ecuador,which drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador,approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum,2008.
Jaime JoséNebot Saadi is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. He formerly served as mayor of Guayaquil,which is Ecuador's largest city. He is affiliated with the Social Christian Party (PSC) and the Madera de Guerrero Civic Movement. Nebot ran twice for president of Ecuador,in 1992 losing against Sixto Duran-Ballén,and in 1996 losing against AbdaláBucaram.
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés is an Ecuadorian politician and diplomat. She was the President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 73rd session,office which started in September 2018. She was Minister of National Defense of Ecuador from 28 November 2012 to 23 September 2014. Previously,she served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Lenín Moreno from May 2017 to June 2018. She also held several other Ministerial posts before. She served as the Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva from October 2014 to May 2017,and held the same position from 2008 to 2009. Besides her political career she is also a poet and essayist.
Carlos Cueva Tamariz was an Ecuadorian politician,lawyer and university professor.
Juan Martín Cueva Armijos is an Ecuadorian documentary film director and the director of the Filmfestival "Cero Latitud" in Quito. His documentary film "Where the poles meet" won the Best Documentary at the IX Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia in Chile and at the Brouillon d’un reve de la Scam in Paris in 1999.
The University of Cuenca is an Ecuadorian university located in Cuenca. University of Cuenca is the principal university of Azuay Province. The university was officially founded in 1867,being the first university on Cuenca.
Manuel Enrique Felix Lopez was an Ecuadorian businessman and politician.
Gabriela Alejandra Rivadeneira Burbano is an Ecuadorian politician. She was President of the National Assembly of Ecuador between May 2013 and May 2017. Previously she was Governor of Imbabura Province from 2011 to 2012.
The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) is a Pontifical Catholic university founded in 1946 in Quito,Ecuador.
Fanny León Cordero was an Ecuadorian jurist and poet. In 1947 she became the female judge in that nation.
María Ramona Cordero y León,best known under her literary pseudonym Mary Corylé,was an Ecuadorian writer and poet.
