Jaime Rolds Aguilera, (born Nov.

5, 1940, Guayaquil, Ecuadordied May 24,

1981, near Guachanama), lawyer elected president of Ecuador in 1979.
After graduating from the University of Guayaquil and its law school, Rolds joined
the faculty of the Vicente Rocafuerte University in Guayaquil. In 1962 he married
Marta Bucaram, a niece of Assad Bucaram, the leader of the Concentration of
Popular Forces (Concentracin de Fuerzas Populares; CFP), a left-of-centre
populist party. In 1968 Rolds, endorsed by the CFP, was elected to the
Ecuadorean legislature, which was, however, suspended by President Jos Mara
Velasco Ibarra in 1970.
In 1976, while Ecuador was ruled by a military junta that had taken control in 1972,
Rolds was appointed to one of three committees charged with formulating
changes in the constitution and election laws of the nation. A new constitution was
adopted in 1978, but a clause inserted in it by the junta disqualified Bucaram from
the presidency, which he had been favoured to win. Rolds became the candidate
of the CFP, using the campaign slogan, Rolds in office, Bucaram in power. He
received a surprising 31 percent of the votes but was forced into a runoff election.
The junta delayed the runoff until April 1979, and Rolds took advantage of the
interval to leave the shadow of Bucaram and build up his own identity. In the runoff,
Rolds received nearly 69 percent of the votes.
After taking office, Rolds pursued policies more conservative than had been
expected; he received little cooperation from the new unicameral legislature, which
was led by the alienated Bucaram. Rolds formed his own political partyPeople,
Change, and Democracyin 1980. He and his wife were killed in an airplane crash
near the Peruvian border.

Len Febres Cordero , (born March 9, 1931, Guayaquil, Ecuadordied Dec. 15,
2008, Guayaquil), Ecuadoran politician who developed a reputation as a largerthan-life strongman while serving a tumultuous term (198488) as president of
Ecuador. Febres Cordero studied mechanical engineering in the United States
before returning home and entering national politics in 1966 as a congressional
deputy. As a member of the right-wing Social Christian Party, he was elected
president and soon gained fame throughout Latin America for his tough-guy image,
bolstered by an affinity for cigarettes and pistols. Though his free-market approach
to economic policy won him the admiration of U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan, his
relationship with his own legislature was frequently contentious, and his brief
kidnapping in 1987 at the hands of rebel commandos underscored Ecuadors
political instability. Following his presidency, Febres Cordero served (19922000)
as the mayor of his hometown, Guayaquil.

Gabriel Garca Moreno, (born December 24, 1821, Guayaquil, Ecuador

died August 6, 1875, Quito), initiator of a church-oriented dictatorship in Ecuador
(186175). His rule, oppressive but often effective in its reformist aims, eventually
cost him his life.
Garca Moreno was educated at the university in Quito and in Europe. Versed in
political theory, he early took an active role in Ecuadors turbulent politics. He
became convinced that the remedy for his nations political and economic plight
was the application of moral principles by a powerful leader.
Aided by a general and former president of Ecuador, Juan Jos Flores, he seized
power in 1860. During his two terms as president (186165, 186975), he
centralized the government, reduced corruption, maintained relative peace,
strengthened the economy, placed education under the Roman Catholic Church,
signed a concordat with the Vatican (1863), and officially dedicated Ecuador to the
Sacred Heart. He was assassinated by a group of young liberals.

Jos Joaqun Olmedo, also called Jos Joaqun de Olmedo (born March 20,
1780, Guayaquil,

New

Granada

[now

in

Ecuador]died February

19,

1847, Guayaquil,Ecuador), poet and statesman whose odes commemorating

South

Americas

achievement

of

independence

from Spain captured

the

revolutionary spirit of his time and inspired a generation of Romantic poets and
patriots. They have remained monuments to the heroic figures of the liberation
movement in South America.
After receiving his degree in law in 1805 from the University of San Marcos in
Lima, Peru, Olmedo was sent to Spain in 1811 to represent Guayaquil in the
Cortes de Cdiz, the revolutionary parliament that promulgated the liberal
constitution of 1812.
Olmedo returned to Guayaquil in 1816, continuing to be active in political life while
writing poetry. His forceful themes of battle and liberation, inspired by
contemporary events and the poetry of Homer, Horace, and Virgil, soon brought
him recognition as an outstanding spokesman of the liberation movement. The ode
for which he is best remembered, La victoria de Junn: Canto a Bolvar (1825; The
Victory at Junn: Song to Bolvar), commemorates the decisive battle won there by
the forces of the liberator Simn Bolvar against the Spanish armies. Neoclassical

in form, yet Romantic in inspiration and imagery, the Canto a Bolvar is considered
by many critics the finest example of heroic poetry written in Spanish America.
When Ecuador became a republic in 1830, Olmedo was elected its first vice
president, but he declined this honour, preferring to remain active in local politics.
His later poetry foresaw and deplored the trend toward the militarism and civil war
that was beginning to undermine the unity of South America after independence
had been achieved.

Medardo ngel Silva is one of the most distinguished and renowned poets
Ecuadorian literature.
Medardo ngel Silva was born in Guayaquil on June 8, 1898, and died EL10 June
1919 in the same city. Writer, poet, musician and composer Ecuador, is considered
the greatest representative of modernism in the Ecuadorian poetry.
Called as the poet beheaded because of the circumstances of his death, from his
youth was noted for his literary compositions, although his work was really known
after his death.
After his death HIS poems were published in France in 1926.
Medardo ngel Silva was a young man of the lower class of Guayaquil, who won
some recognition for his work as a journalist for 17 years (approximately, when he
left his studies in school Vicente Rocafuerte) until his death at 21. He worked in
printing small and then collaborated on several weeklies and magazines. Later, he
came to work in the newspaper the Telegraph on page literature, where he was
able to publish several poems and short stories.
Silva did not graduate from high school, but his condition led him to be self-taught
school teacher and even read French, and was provided with contact with the
French symbolist poetry (Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire) who
came to be its greatest references. His influences also were the modernism of
Ruben Dario and mysticism of Amado Nervo.
Among his famous literary works are:

 The tree of good and evil (poetry, 1918)

Maria Jesus (novel, 1919)
The ironic mask (trials)
Golden Trumpets (poetry)
The soul on the lips (loose poetry)
The death of Medardo Angel Silva remains a unsolved mystery clarify: since the
age of 21 the young poet died from a shot in his head. Further analysis cast doubt
on the suicide, since the bullet entered behind the ear. However, never ...