The Fundación Colegio Americano de Quito or Colegio Americano de Quito is a private college preparatory school in Quito,Ecuador. In 1940 it was founded by the former president of Ecuador and the president of the Organization of American States (OAS) Galo Plaza Lasso,and Boaz Long.
The Andean Community is a free trade area with the objective of creating a customs union comprising the South American countries of Bolivia,Colombia,Ecuador,and Peru. The trade bloc was called the Andean Pact until 1996 and came into existence when the Cartagena Agreement was signed in 1969. Its headquarters are in Lima,Peru.
The Union of South American Nations (USAN),sometimes also referred to as the South American Union,abbreviated in Spanish as UNASUR and in Portuguese as UNASUL,is an intergovernmental regional organization set up by Hugo Chavez to counteract the influence of the United States in the region. It once comprised twelve South American countries;as of 2019,most have withdrawn.
The Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement –New Country is a left-wing indigenist party in Ecuador. It was founded primarily as a way to advance the interests of a wide variety of indigenous peoples' organizations throughout Ecuador.
Diego Borja Cornejo is an Ecuadorian economist and politician born in Quito,Ecuador. Between 2005 and 2006 he served as Minister of Economy and Finance. He was elected member of the National Constitutional Assembly on September 30,2007. He resigned this position to be appointed Coordination Minister for Economic Policy on December 23,2008
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017,Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally,he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR.
Alfredo Fuentes Hernández is a Colombian diplomat,lawyer and economist. He was a partner at Colombian law firm Palacios Lleras. Since October 2015 he is a partner and CEO at the Colombian Law Firm "Fuentes Hernández Asesores SAS".
The Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations is the legal representative of the Secretariat of the Union of South American Nations (USAN).
María Isabel Salvador is an Ecuadorian politician,diplomat and professional in the tourism industry. Currently,she serves as the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Haiti,appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in March 2023. She has served in two administrations as Minister of Tourism,Minister of Foreign Affairs,Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the Organization of American States,Parliamentarian at the Andean Parliament,and President of the Governing Council of the Galápagos. Before the public service chapter of her life she worked in the tourism industry as CEO of Air France in Ecuador and vicepresident of the national tourism chamber of commerce CAPTUR.
JoséSerrano Salgado is an Ecuadorian politician. He was President of the National Assembly between 14 May 2017 and 9 March 2018. He was Minister of the Interior from 13 May 2011 to 15 November 2016. He previously held other cabinet posts.
Johana Farina Pesántez Benítez is an Ecuadorian politician,she was Minister of Justice,Human Rights and Religious Affairs between 13 May 2011 and 18 June 2013. Since 24 May 2017 she has been judicial advisor to President Lenín Moreno.
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.
Guillaume Jean Sebastien Long is a former politician and academic who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador and Human Mobility,in the government of Rafael Correa. He was previously the Minister of Culture and Heritage,and Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent. Long later became Ecuador's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva,before resigning in January 2018 over strong disagreements with President Moreno. Since 2019,Long has been working for the Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Fernando Huanacuni Mamani is a Bolivian politician,lawyer and researcher. He served as the Foreign Minister of Bolivia from 2017 to 2018.
Ivonne Juez Abuchacra de Baki is an Ecuadorian politician and diplomat. She is most known for her time as the Ecuadorian Minister of Industries and Productivity and as the President of the Andean Parliament. She is Ecuador's former Ambassador to Qatar and current Ambassador to the United States. She was the first female ambassador in Ecuadorian history.
Rosana Vinueza Estrada de Tama was an Ecuadorian politician and beauty pageant titleholder. In 1969,she was named Miss Ecuador 1969,and was a participant in Miss Universe 1969. From there,she married and had four children,and went to work in the nonprofit sector. She was the manager of Fundación Natura,an environmental non-profit organization,and also guided Fundación Crecer as that non-profit organization was starting up.
Pamela Alejandra Aguirre Zambonino is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. In May 2017,she became a Member of the Andean Parliament,by popular election with 2,669,238 votes nationwide.
Sumak kawsay is a neologism in Quechua invented in the 1990s by intellectuals,academics and experts in development working in or about Latin America and receiving a kind of sponsorship and technical advice by developmental cooperation agencies from Europe. Sumak kamaña in aymara was invented at first in the same conditions,similar neologisms were produced in another languages spoken by people classified as indigenous in Latin America. Originally created as a political and cultural proposal for countries with indigenous populations,Ecuadorian and Bolivian governments later adopted it to make new Constitutions. The term refers to the implementation of a kind of socialism that moves away from Western socialist theory and instead uses an idea of ancestral,communitarian knowledge and lifestyle of Quechua speaking people,the most of then living in peasant communities since the Colonial period. In Ecuador,it has been translated as buen vivir or "good living",although native speakers of Quechua when are asked to translate the neologism in another language say that a more precise translation would be "the plentiful life". In Bolivia,the original neologism in Aimaran is suma qamaña which has been also translated as vivir bien or living well.
Sonia Roca is the Chancellor and Founder of Universidad Del Pacífico - Ecuador.
The Secretary-General of the Andean Community is the chief administrative officer of the executive organ of the Andean Community. Since August 1,1997,it also assumes the attributions of the Junta of the Cartagena Agreement. The secretary-general is headquartered at the organisation's brutalist-style headquarters of the same name in Lima,Peru,formerly known as the Building of the Andean Pact.
