SIXTO DURAN BALLEN EX PRESIDENT OF ECUADOR MARIA TERESA MANZUR AND CARLOS OLMEDO
Sixto Alfonso Duran-Ballen Cordovez is an Ecuadorian political figure and architect. He was Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978, and as president of Ecuador between 1992 and 1996. He served as congressman in 1984 and again in 1998.
During his time as president he actively pursued structural reform to modernize the Ecuadorian state and cut down wasteful bureaucratic spending. The result was a significant reduction of government deficits and a thriving private sector. He also led Ecuador into membership in the WTO which had a significant impact on the country's political institutions and export competitiveness. In 1995 he proved to be one of Ecuador's most successful war-time leaders when his determined leadership united a divided country under the theme "Ni un paso atras" which means not a single step backwards during the Cenepa War.
During his term there were corruption indictments against personal members of his family, accused of illicit enrichment, in cases such as "Flores y Miel" ("Flowers and Honey") and the impeachment of his Vice President Alberto Dahik for allegedly using public funds illicitly. However Duran-Ballen was never directly a part of these scandals and he is remembered for being one of the most honest politicians in the history of modern Ecuadorian politics.
Rafael Correa by Gracielita Mawyin and Jose Luis Arce
Rafael correa was bornt on April 6th, 1963 in Guayaquil-Ecuador. Since 2006 he has been the president of Ecuador. Rafael Correa comes from a working-class family.
When Rafael Correa was 25 years old, his father was caught smuggling drugs into the U.S. For this reason, Rafael had a troubled and difficult childhood. He was part and directed groups of Scouts of the Association of Scouts of Ecuador and President of the student association of his highschool. Based on his academic achievements he obtained a scholarship at the Catolic University where he got a degree in Economy. His next step was work for one year as a missioner in a indigenous comunity . Later he studied in Belgium and U.S., he obtained a master in Economy and a PHD in Economics. In 2005 he became the minister of finance. The next year he ran for the presidence of Ecuador and won.
Vicente Rocafuerte, the first ecuadorian president, the beginning of a new age.
Vicente Rocafuerte y Bejarano (May 1, 1783 - May 16, 1847) was an influential figure in Ecuadorian politics and President of Ecuador from September 10, 1834 to January 31, 1839. He was born into an aristocratic family in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and as a youth, was sent to Madrid to finish his education. He returned to Ecuador in 1807, and committed himself to freeing his land, first from Spanish rule, and later from the Republic of Gran Colombia. After Ecuadorian independence, Rocafuerte was elected a member of the National Congress for Pichincha Province. He led the opposition to President Juan José Flores, who exiled him to Peru. Rocafuerte returned, and on September 20, 1833, became Governor of Guayas Province.
In 1839, after Rocafuerte had left office, Flores was again elected president, and for some time there were no difficulties between the two men. However, after electoral irregularities in 1843, Flores annulled the 1835 constitution and passed a new one, called by Rocafuerte 'The Letter of Slavery'. When Flores took up a third term as president in 1843, Rocafuerte left Ecuador in protest. After a short rebellion, Rocafuerte and Vicente Ramón Roca overthrew Flores on March 6, 1845, and Roca became president of Ecuador later that year. Under Vicente Ramón Roca's presidency, Rocafuerte was appointed as special representative to various South American countries. He died on May 16, 1847.
Is the President of the Republic of Ecuador and the former president pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations. An economist educated in Ecuador, Belgium and the United States, he was elected President in late 2006 and took office in January 2007. In December 2008, he declared Ecuador's national debt illegitimate, based on the argument that it was odious debt contracted by corrupt and despotic prior regimes. He announced that the country would default on over $3 billion worth of bonds; he then pledged to fight creditors in international courts and succeeded in reducing the price of outstanding bonds by more than 60%. He brought Ecuador into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas in June 2009. To date, Correa’s administration has succeeded in reducing the high levels of poverty, indigence, and unemployment in Ecuador. Correa's first term in office had been due to end on 15 January 2011, but the new approved constitution written by the new National Assembly mandated general elections for 26 April 2009. In that election, Rafael Correa won in the first round with 51.9%] of votes counted. It was the first time since 1979 in which a representative was elected without having to face a second round. Consequently, Correa began a new term in office due to end on 10 August 2013, which could be extended by reelection until 2017.
Gabriel García Moreno (December 24, 1821 – August 6, 1875) was an Ecuadorian politician who twice served as President of Ecuador (1859-1865 and 1869-1875)and he was killed by Faustino Rayo because Faustino's wife betrayed him with Garcia Moreno. He studied theology and law in Quito's University. His father was Gabriel García y Gómez, a Spanish merchant, and his mother was María de las Mercedes Moreno y Morán de Buitrón. He was conservatism so for that reason he founded the Conservative Party in 1869 He had a Catholic religious perspective. Ecuador became a leader in science and higher education within Latin America. he was noted for economically and agriculturally, He had an opposition to corruption, even giving his own salary to charity. He was a good president with some troubles in his mind
Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California, on January 9, 1913, and died on April 22, 1994 in New Work. He was the was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. His father was Francis Anthony Nixon and his mother was Hannah Milhous Nixon. He had four brothers, and four of the five Nixon boys were named after kings who had ruled in historical or legendary England. His lived in a middle class neighborhood, and as he said: “We were poor, but the glory of it was, we didn't know it.” He graduated from Whittier College in 1934 and Duke University Law School in 1937; he was a lawyer, public official. He married Thelma "Patricia" Catherine Ryan on June 21, 1940 and the couple had two children: Patricia Nixon was born in 1946 and Julie Nixon, who was born in1948. Nixon was inaugurated as president on January 20, 1969 and was re-elected in a landslide in 1972, defeating Senator George McGovern, and was sworn in for a second term on ]January 20 , 1973. A few days later, he announced an agreement to end the Vietnam War. His administration improved relations with China. Nixon made a public visit to China in February, 1972. Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974, after his loss of political support and the near certainty of impeachment. In December 1974, Nixon returned to public life. He fell ill with phlebitis, but the following year his health was improving. He wrote a number of books and travelled widely. Nixon suffered a damage to the brain and slipped into a deep coma. He died in 1994 and his funeral was held on April 27 at The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, California.
Barack Hussein Obama II, was born on August 4, 1961in Honolulu, Hawaii. Actually, he is the 44th president of the United States. He was a civil rights lawyer before pursuing a political career, is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. His mother is Ann Hudman and his father is Barack Obama. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. Until he was two years old, he live with his parents, then they got divorced and he moved to Indonesia with his family, but due a lot of problems in this place, he was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. He was excelling in basketball and graduate with academic honors in 1979. He met Michelle Robinson, his wife, an associate at Sidley & Austin law firm in Chicago. She was assigned to be Obama's adviser during a summer internship at the firm, and soon the couple began dating. Their first kiss took place outside of a Chicago shopping center. In February 1990, Obama was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review, and he graduated magna cum laude in 1991. One year later, on October 3, 1992, he and Michelle were married. They moved to Kenwood, on Chicago's South Side, and welcomed two daughters: Malia who was born on 1998 and Sasha who was born on 2001. His advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat, he won election in 1996. He started to work with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting legislation on ethics, expanded health care services, and early childhood education programs for the poor, also he created a state earned-income tax credit for the working poor. In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run. Years later, he started to work on his campaign to become Senator. Finally, he was sworn in as a senator on January 3, 2005, becoming the only Senate member of the Congressional Black Caucus. On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol State Historic Site, at Springfield. During both the primary process and the general election, Obama's campaign set numerous fundraising records, particularly in the quantity of small donations. On June 19, 2008, Obama became the first major-party presidential candidate to turn down Campaign finance in the United States Public financing of campaigns in the general election since the system was created in 1976. On November 4, Obama won the presidency with 365 electoral votes, to 173 received by McCain. Obama won 52.9% of the popular vote to McCain's 45.7%. He became the first African American to be elected president.
Velasco Ibarra was an Ecuadorian political figure. He was elected 5 times to be president of our country: 1934–1935, 1944–1947, 1952–1956, 1960–1961, and 1968-1972. Velasco Ibarra was born in Quito, his parents were Delia Ibarra and Alejandrino Velasco who was a political conservative activist during the liberal revolution. He was home schooled by his mother and attended high school at Colegio San Gabriel. He obtained a doctorate in Jurisprudence.
As an autor, Velassco wrote several books like Conciencia y Barbarie, and was also a columnist in "El Comercio" newspaper. This ability of writing, talking and express his ideas made him a great orator, this help him to get close to the ecuadorians, he captivated people with his great eloquence.
Most of the things he did as president were related with infrastructure. Roads, hospitals, and bridges, were construted during Velasco Ibarra's presidencies. He was the initiator of institutions such as the Supreme Electoral Tribunaland. He reestablished the Polytechnic School, gave great support to the military, and established several new cantons, including Chunchi, Biblián and Guamote. He decreed the law of weekly days off for workers, ordered the construction of irrigation canals, educational infrastructure, aircraft fields, and highways.
He was well known as a humble person. Despite he was poor, he didn´t get his salary as president because he thought that it money belongs to Ecuadorians so he gave it for charity.
During his last presidence, on february 15th of 1972, the Army Commander General Guillermo Rodriguez Lara ended with a military coup his government. After it, Velasco was expatriate to Buenos Aires.
Velasco Ibarra's wife, Corina Parral, died in Buenos Aires after falling from a bus. This precipitated Velasco's death, who said on his return to Ecuador: "I come to meditate and to die." A few days later in Quito (March 30 1979) Velasco Ibarra died.
BY ANA CRISTINA FRANCO ESPINOSA AND JAVIER ENRIQUE GARCIA SABANDO
Augusto Pinochet was born in November 23 in 1915 in Valparaiso Chile. He was the oldest of 6 brothers; his father was a middle class government worker. He entered military school when he turned 18, and graduated as a Sub-Lieutenant after his school life. Pinochet never saw any action in combat during his military career, Pinochet became an intellectual, lecturing at the War Academy for periods of time and authoring five different books on politics and warfare. In 1948, Pinochet met Salvador Allende, a young Chilean senator. Over the next three years, Pinochet proved invaluable to Allende, helping put down opposition to Allende’s economic policies, which were devastating the nation’s economy. Allende promoted Pinochet to commander-in-chief of all Chilean armed forces on August 23, 1973. Allende was wrong to trust Pinochet. With the people in the streets and the economy in shambles, the military made a move to take over the government. Twenty days after he order an air strike on the presidential palace, Allende died defending the palace. Pinochet’s government some years later became more authoritarian than ever and attempted to control many areas of society’s life, including new economic policies that seemed like they might throw Chile into another depression. While undergoing surgery in a London hospital, Pinochet was arrested for crimes against humanity. In the years that passed, Pinochet suffered strokes and eventual mental dementia that made him too unstable to stand trial for his crimes. He died in 2006, never having trial for the crimes that he was accused for.
SIXTO DURAN BALLEN
ResponderEliminarEX PRESIDENT OF ECUADOR
MARIA TERESA MANZUR AND CARLOS OLMEDO
Sixto Alfonso Duran-Ballen Cordovez is an Ecuadorian political figure and architect.
He was Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978, and as president of Ecuador between 1992 and 1996. He served as congressman in 1984 and again in 1998.
During his time as president he actively pursued structural reform to modernize the Ecuadorian state and cut down wasteful bureaucratic spending. The result was a significant reduction of government deficits and a thriving private sector. He also led Ecuador into membership in the WTO which had a significant impact on the country's political institutions and export competitiveness. In 1995 he proved to be one of Ecuador's most successful war-time leaders when his determined leadership united a divided country under the theme "Ni un paso atras" which means not a single step backwards during the Cenepa War.
During his term there were corruption indictments against personal members of his family, accused of illicit enrichment, in cases such as "Flores y Miel" ("Flowers and Honey") and the impeachment of his Vice President Alberto Dahik for allegedly using public funds illicitly. However Duran-Ballen was never directly a part of these scandals and he is remembered for being one of the most honest politicians in the history of modern Ecuadorian politics.
Rafael Correa by Gracielita Mawyin and Jose Luis Arce
ResponderEliminarRafael correa was bornt on April 6th, 1963 in Guayaquil-Ecuador. Since 2006 he has been the president of Ecuador.
Rafael Correa comes from a working-class family.
When Rafael Correa was 25 years old, his father was caught smuggling drugs into the U.S. For this reason, Rafael had a troubled and difficult childhood.
He was part and directed groups of Scouts of the Association of Scouts of Ecuador and President of the student association of his highschool. Based on his academic achievements he obtained a scholarship at the Catolic University where he got a degree in Economy.
His next step was work for one year as a missioner in a indigenous comunity
.
Later he studied in Belgium and U.S., he obtained a master in Economy and a PHD in Economics.
In 2005 he became the minister of finance. The next year he ran for the presidence of Ecuador and won.
Vicente Rocafuerte, the first ecuadorian president, the beginning of a new age.
ResponderEliminarVicente Rocafuerte y Bejarano (May 1, 1783 - May 16, 1847) was an influential figure in Ecuadorian politics and President of Ecuador from September 10, 1834 to January 31, 1839.
He was born into an aristocratic family in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and as a youth, was sent to Madrid to finish his education. He returned to Ecuador in 1807, and committed himself to freeing his land, first from Spanish rule, and later from the Republic of Gran Colombia.
After Ecuadorian independence, Rocafuerte was elected a member of the National Congress for Pichincha Province. He led the opposition to President Juan José Flores, who exiled him to Peru.
Rocafuerte returned, and on September 20, 1833, became Governor of Guayas Province.
In 1839, after Rocafuerte had left office, Flores was again elected president, and for some time there were no difficulties between the two men. However, after electoral irregularities in 1843, Flores annulled the 1835 constitution and passed a new one, called by Rocafuerte 'The Letter of Slavery'. When Flores took up a third term as president in 1843, Rocafuerte left Ecuador in protest. After a short rebellion, Rocafuerte and Vicente Ramón Roca overthrew Flores on March 6, 1845, and Roca became president of Ecuador later that year.
Under Vicente Ramón Roca's presidency, Rocafuerte was appointed as special representative to various South American countries. He died on May 16, 1847.
Marco Montalvo and Fernando Olvera
ResponderEliminarRafael Correa... More than a president.
Is the President of the Republic of Ecuador and the former president pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations. An economist educated in Ecuador, Belgium and the United States, he was elected President in late 2006 and took office in January 2007. In December 2008, he declared Ecuador's national debt illegitimate, based on the argument that it was odious debt contracted by corrupt and despotic prior regimes. He announced that the country would default on over $3 billion worth of bonds; he then pledged to fight creditors in international courts and succeeded in reducing the price of outstanding bonds by more than 60%. He brought Ecuador into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas in June 2009. To date, Correa’s administration has succeeded in reducing the high levels of poverty, indigence, and unemployment in Ecuador.
Correa's first term in office had been due to end on 15 January 2011, but the new approved constitution written by the new National Assembly mandated general elections for 26 April 2009. In that election, Rafael Correa won in the first round with 51.9%] of votes counted. It was the first time since 1979 in which a representative was elected without having to face a second round. Consequently, Correa began a new term in office due to end on 10 August 2013, which could be extended by reelection until 2017.
Gabriel García Moreno (December 24, 1821 – August 6, 1875) was an Ecuadorian politician who twice served as President of Ecuador (1859-1865 and 1869-1875)and he was killed by Faustino Rayo because Faustino's wife betrayed him with Garcia Moreno. He studied theology and law in Quito's University.
ResponderEliminarHis father was Gabriel García y Gómez, a Spanish merchant, and his mother was María de las Mercedes Moreno y Morán de Buitrón.
He was conservatism so for that reason he founded the Conservative Party in 1869 He had a Catholic religious perspective.
Ecuador became a leader in science and higher education within Latin America. he was noted for economically and agriculturally, He had an opposition to corruption, even giving his own salary to charity.
He was a good president with some troubles in his mind
Richard Nixon by Daniela Zeballos
ResponderEliminarRichard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California, on January 9, 1913, and died on April 22, 1994 in New Work. He was the was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
His father was Francis Anthony Nixon and his mother was Hannah Milhous Nixon. He had four brothers, and four of the five Nixon boys were named after kings who had ruled in historical or legendary England. His lived in a middle class neighborhood, and as he said: “We were poor, but the glory of it was, we didn't know it.”
He graduated from Whittier College in 1934 and Duke University Law School in 1937; he was a lawyer, public official.
He married Thelma "Patricia" Catherine Ryan on June 21, 1940 and the couple had two children: Patricia Nixon was born in 1946 and Julie Nixon, who was born in1948.
Nixon was inaugurated as president on January 20, 1969 and was re-elected in a landslide in 1972, defeating Senator George McGovern, and was sworn in for a second term on ]January 20 , 1973. A few days later, he announced an agreement to end the Vietnam War. His administration improved relations with China. Nixon made a public visit to China in February, 1972.
Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974, after his loss of political support and the near certainty of impeachment. In December 1974, Nixon returned to public life. He fell ill with phlebitis, but the following year his health was improving. He wrote a number of books and travelled widely.
Nixon suffered a damage to the brain and slipped into a deep coma. He died in 1994 and his funeral was held on April 27 at The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, California.
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ResponderEliminarBarack Obama by Arianna Armijo and Daniela Viteri
ResponderEliminarBarack Hussein Obama II, was born on August 4, 1961in Honolulu, Hawaii. Actually, he is the 44th president of the United States. He was a civil rights lawyer before pursuing a political career, is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. His mother is Ann Hudman and his father is Barack Obama. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. Until he was two years old, he live with his parents, then they got divorced and he moved to Indonesia with his family, but due a lot of problems in this place, he was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. He was excelling in basketball and graduate with academic honors in 1979. He met Michelle Robinson, his wife, an associate at Sidley & Austin law firm in Chicago. She was assigned to be Obama's adviser during a summer internship at the firm, and soon the couple began dating. Their first kiss took place outside of a Chicago shopping center. In February 1990, Obama was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review, and he graduated magna cum laude in 1991. One year later, on October 3, 1992, he and Michelle were married. They moved to Kenwood, on Chicago's South Side, and welcomed two daughters: Malia who was born on 1998 and Sasha who was born on 2001. His advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat, he won election in 1996. He started to work with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting legislation on ethics, expanded health care services, and early childhood education programs for the poor, also he created a state earned-income tax credit for the working poor. In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run. Years later, he started to work on his campaign to become Senator. Finally, he was sworn in as a senator on January 3, 2005, becoming the only Senate member of the Congressional Black Caucus. On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol State Historic Site, at Springfield. During both the primary process and the general election, Obama's campaign set numerous fundraising records, particularly in the quantity of small donations. On June 19, 2008, Obama became the first major-party presidential candidate to turn down Campaign finance in the United States Public financing of campaigns in the general election since the system was created in 1976. On November 4, Obama won the presidency with 365 electoral votes, to 173 received by McCain. Obama won 52.9% of the popular vote to McCain's 45.7%. He became the first African American to be elected president.
José María Velasco Ibarra, A TRUE LIDER!
ResponderEliminar(March 19, 1893 - March 30, 1979)
Velasco Ibarra was an Ecuadorian political figure. He was elected 5 times to be president of our country: 1934–1935, 1944–1947, 1952–1956, 1960–1961, and 1968-1972.
Velasco Ibarra was born in Quito, his parents were Delia Ibarra and Alejandrino Velasco who was a political conservative activist during the liberal revolution. He was home schooled by his mother and attended high school at Colegio San Gabriel. He obtained a doctorate in Jurisprudence.
As an autor, Velassco wrote several books like Conciencia y Barbarie, and was also a columnist in "El Comercio" newspaper. This ability of writing, talking and express his ideas made him a great orator, this help him to get close to the ecuadorians, he captivated people with his great eloquence.
Most of the things he did as president were related with infrastructure. Roads, hospitals, and bridges, were construted during Velasco Ibarra's presidencies. He was the initiator of institutions such as the Supreme Electoral Tribunaland. He reestablished the Polytechnic School, gave great support to the military, and established several new cantons, including Chunchi, Biblián and Guamote. He decreed the law of weekly days off for workers, ordered the construction of irrigation canals, educational infrastructure, aircraft fields, and highways.
He was well known as a humble person. Despite he was poor, he didn´t get his salary as president because he thought that it money belongs to Ecuadorians so he gave it for charity.
During his last presidence, on february 15th of 1972, the Army Commander General Guillermo Rodriguez Lara ended with a military coup his government. After it, Velasco was expatriate to Buenos Aires.
Velasco Ibarra's wife, Corina Parral, died in Buenos Aires after falling from a bus. This precipitated Velasco's death, who said on his return to Ecuador: "I come to meditate and to die." A few days later in Quito (March 30 1979) Velasco Ibarra died.
BY ANA CRISTINA FRANCO ESPINOSA AND JAVIER ENRIQUE GARCIA SABANDO
Augusto Pinochet Biography
ResponderEliminarAugusto Pinochet was born in November 23 in 1915 in Valparaiso Chile. He was the oldest of 6 brothers; his father was a middle class government worker. He entered military school when he turned 18, and graduated as a Sub-Lieutenant after his school life.
Pinochet never saw any action in combat during his military career, Pinochet became an intellectual, lecturing at the War Academy for periods of time and authoring five different books on politics and warfare. In 1948, Pinochet met Salvador Allende, a young Chilean senator.
Over the next three years, Pinochet proved invaluable to Allende, helping put down opposition to Allende’s economic policies, which were devastating the nation’s economy. Allende promoted Pinochet to commander-in-chief of all Chilean armed forces on August 23, 1973. Allende was wrong to trust Pinochet. With the people in the streets and the economy in shambles, the military made a move to take over the government. Twenty days after he order an air strike on the presidential palace, Allende died defending the palace.
Pinochet’s government some years later became more authoritarian than ever and attempted to control many areas of society’s life, including new economic policies that seemed like they might throw Chile into another depression. While undergoing surgery in a London hospital, Pinochet was arrested for crimes against humanity. In the years that passed, Pinochet suffered strokes and eventual mental dementia that made him too unstable to stand trial for his crimes. He died in 2006, never having trial for the crimes that he was accused for.
Gia Rainero and Christian Báez.