Jorge Pérez Concha

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Jorge Pérez Concha
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Born June 5, 1908
Guayaquil, Ecuador
DiedApril 1, 1995 (1995-05) (aged 86)
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Occupation Historian, Writer, Biographer, Diplomat
Nationality Ecuadorian
Notable awards Premio Eugenio Espejo (1989)
Spouse María Pesantes García

Jorge Pérez Concha (Guayaquil, June 5, 1908 - Guayaquil, April 1, 1995) was an Ecuadorian historian, biographer, writer, and diplomat.

Guayaquil City in Guayas, Ecuador

Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil is the second largest city in Ecuador, with 2,578,201 people in its metropolitan area. It is also the nation's main port. The city is the capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil canton.

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He wrote biographies of Eloy Alfaro, Luis Vargas Torres, and his uncle Carlos Concha Torres, among others.

Eloy Alfaro President of Ecuador

José Eloy Alfaro Delgado was an Ecuadorian politician who served as the President of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911. Alfaro became one of the strongest opponents of pro-Catholic conservative President Gabriel Garcia Moreno (1821–1875) and was known as the Viejo Luchador for playing a central role in the Liberal Revolution of 1895 and having fought conservatism for almost 30 years.

Luis Vargas Torres

Colonel Luís Vargas Torres was an Ecuadorian revolutionary and national hero and martyr in the cause of liberalism.

He was awarded Ecuador's top National Prize the "Premio Eugenio Espejo" in 1989 in the Culture category.

The Premio Nacional Eugenio Espejo is the national prize of the nation of Ecuador.

Biography

Jorge Pérez Concha was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on June 5, 1908. [1] His father was Dr. Federico Pérez Aspiazu, and his mother was Teresa Concha Torres. His father died in 1919, and he went to live at a relative's hacienda in the north of Quito.

A hacienda, in the colonies of the Spanish Empire, is an estate, similar in form to a Roman villa. Some haciendas were plantations, mines or factories. Many haciendas combined these activities. The word is derived from the Spanish word "hacer" or "haciendo", which means: to make or be making, respectively; and were largely business enterprises consisting of various money making ventures including raising farm animals and maintaining orchards.

Quito Capital city in Pichincha, Ecuador

Quito is the capital and the largest city of Ecuador, and at an elevation of 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) above sea level, it is the second-highest official capital city in the world, after La Paz, and the one which is closest to the equator. It is located in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains.

In 1926 he and Demetrio Aguilera Malta published a book of poems and prose titled "Primavera Interior" (Interior Spring), which contained 18 of his own poems, and 21 stories by Aguilera Malta. In 1927 Pérez Concha and Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco founded the magazine "Voluntad" in collaboration with Leopoldo Benites Vinueza, but they published only six issues. In 1929 Pérez Concha and Espinel Hector Mendoza founded the first commercial advertising agency in Guayaquil, and it worked for several years until they had to close it down due to the severe economic crisis of the 1930s.

Demetrio Aguilera Malta writer

Demetrio Aguilera Malta was an Ecuadorian writer, director, painter, and diplomat. He was a member of the Guayaquil Group of the 1930s, who used social realism in their writings. He used magical realism in his masterpiece Siete lunas y siete serpientes (1970), which was translated into English as Seven Serpents and Seven Moons by Gregory Rabassa in 1979.

Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco Ecuadorian writer and diplomat

Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco — born Alfredo Pareja y Díez Canseco — was a prominent Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, journalist, historian and diplomat. An innovator of the 20th-century Latin American novel, he was a founding member of the literary Grupo de Guayaquil. The government of President Jaime Roldós Aguilera (1979–81) appointed him Chancellor of the Republic and he served as Foreign Minister of Ecuador (1979–80) and Ambassador to France (1983–84).

In 1939 he met and married María Pesantes García with whom he had children.

In 1942 he won the National Biographies Contest with his book "Eloy Alfaro, su vida y su obra" (Eloy Alfaro, His Life and His Work) hosted by the Ecuadorian government to mark the centenary of the birth of Eloy Alfaro. In 1958 he was appointed the chief of the Guayaquil Branch of the Ecuadorian House of Culture and became its president on February 17, 1962. In 1960 he became an elected member of the Advisory Board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At this time he was also the head of the Municipal Library. In 1962 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit by the Ecuadorian President Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy.

Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana

La Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana is a cultural organization founded by Benjamín Carrión on August 9, 1944, during the presidency of Dr Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. It was created to stimulate, to direct and to coordinate the development of an authentic national culture. Headquartered in Quito, it maintains several museums throughout Ecuador.

Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy President of Ecuador

Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy was Ecuadorian politician. Arosemena Monroy was elected as Vice President of Ecuador in 1960 and due to the ousting of President José María Velasco Ibarra, became President of Ecuador from 7 November 1961 to 11 July 1963.

Between 1973-1979 he was a guest speaker at the National Higher Education Institute (Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales). In 1974 he was a member of the delegation to the 15th Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS), held in Quito. Between 1976-1979 he was the vice-president of the Foreign Advisory Board. In 1977 the University of Guayaquil conferred to him the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa. In 1978 he attended the 33rd Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Ambassadorship to Cuba

In 1979 he was appointed Ecuador's ambassador to Cuba. Ecuador and Cuba had not had an exchange of ambassadors since their relationship was ruptured in 1963. He traveled to Havana to assume his post as ambassador, and then on Friday, February 13, 1984, a group of fourteen people, of varying ages and genders (even children), stormed the Ecuadorian embassy in Cuba to seek asylum. They held the Ecuadorian ambassador, officials and other employees hostage. The incident received global attention. In response, the Cuban government took a strong stance, and turned off water and energy to the building, cordoned off the block, and emptied all the neighboring buildings, and deployed a large number of soldiers to the area. The Cuban government only allowed a minimal amount of food that the Ecuadorian diplomats had to share with the assailants. After a week, and wanting to avoid a fatal outcome, the Ecuadorian government sent Jaime Moncayo Garcia and Cornelio Merchan to negotiate. After long discussions with the Cuban government and the assailants, they surrendered on Friday, February 20, with the condition that the Ecuadorian government would oversee a fair trial. But the next day, it was learned that not only had they been tortured but also sentenced to death in a summary trial. Ambassador Pérez Concha immediately intervened, and explained to Fidel Castro, that the death penalty was abolished in Ecuador in 1902, and that its application in this case would hurt the recently re-established relationship between Ecuador and Cuba. Fidel Castro then commuted all of the death sentences to 30 years imprisonment. Owing to the breach in agreement (that the assailants would receive a fair trial), Pérez Concha returned to Ecuador, and the Ecuadorian government did not appoint another ambassador to Cuba for a while. The foreign ministry then offered Pérez Concha the ambassadorship in Portugal, but he turned it down for a post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Guayaquil with the "Ambassador" title. [2]

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  1. ↑ Ganadores del Premio Eugenio Espejo (biografias) Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ Complete biography in Spanish by Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine .
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