Alfaro, Flavio Eloy( general, statesman and political figure in Ecuador.)
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Biography Alfaro, Flavio Eloy
Leader of the Liberal Radical Party. With the 60-ies. actively participated in the struggle against the dictatorship of Mr.. Garcia Moreno, and went through its government. In 1895, after the victory of the popular uprising in Guayaquil and the overthrow of President L. Cordero, who was in exile Alfaro, was proclaimed the People's Assembly of the supreme ruler of the country. In 1897-1901 and 1906-11 Alfaro - President of Ecuador. Conducted policies, facilitate the development of capitalism, the elimination of the remnants of feudalism and the emergence of Ecuador as a bourgeois-democratic state, the church was separated from the state of the church large estates nationalized. In 1906 the government Alfaro adopted the Constitution, which states the bourgeois-democratic freedoms (t. n. red Constitution "). In 1909, with the support Alfaro was convened by the 1 st Congress of Workers of Ecuador. Government Alfaro defended national sovereignty, supported liberal movements in other Latin American countries advocated a union of Latin American countries against the expansion of American and British capital. Activities Alfaro provoked fierce resistance from the reaction and the top part of the Liberal Radical Party, which came to terms with the Conservatives. In January 1912, Alfaro was brutally murdered in g. Quito.
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