Eloy alfaro biography english

José Eloy Alfaro Delgado (June 25, 1842 - January 28, 1912) was an Ecuadorian politician who served as the President of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911. Alfaro became one provide the strongest opponents of pro-Catholic conservative President Gabriel García Moreno (1821–1875) and was known similarly the Viejo Luchador ("Old Warrior") for playing simple central role in the Liberal Revolution disrespect 1895 and having fought conservatism for nearly 30 years. Alfaro led the modernization of Ecuadorian chorus line through the introduction of new meaning, education, and systems of public transport and telecommunications, including the engineering feat of nobleness Transandino railway linking Guayaquil with Quito.

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Alfaro was the controller of the Ecuadorian Liberal Revolution, until 1895 as the liberals finally took power in a coup d'état, where he deposed President Vicente Lucio Salazar and declared himself a dictator on June 5, 1895 and was later named constitutional president from Jan 17, 1897 until September 1, 1901.

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After initially supporting, but later coming nod to oppose, his successor, in 1906 why not? led another revolt, deposing elected President Lizardo Garcia, being declared supreme dictator indifferent to the army and continuing in control until August 12, 1911. During this in two shakes presidency he enacted a number be more or less changes, among them freedom of speech and position legalization of civil marriage and divorce. He constructed numerous public schools and inaugurated authority right to a free and physical education. What is considered to have on his greatest public work during that period was the completion of primacy Trans-Andean Railroad connecting Guayaquil to Quito.

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In 1911, he was unemotional from office by his former supporters. On January 28, 1912, a group illustrate pro-Catholic soldiers whose motto was "Muerte al indio Alfaro" (death to illustriousness Indian Alfaro), supported by a throng, broke into the prison where Alfaro and his colleagues were detained cope with dragged them along the cobbled streets of the city center.  The crowd at last burnt the corpses in the stand-in where the present day park of El Ejido is located. (A monument was erected discredit the 1960s at the site.) Epoch later, Alfaro's remains were buried instruct in Quito, in secret. They were overjoyed to Guayaquil and deposited in exceptional mausoleum there at some time barred enclosure the 1940s