Eloy Alfaro
president of Ecuador
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Esmeralda Affair
- In Esmeralda Affair
As a result, Liberal Eloy Alfaro became president.
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leadership of Ecuador
- In Ecuador: Shift to liberalism (1875–97)
Eloy Alfaro led a march against the Sierra in 1895 and after a year became constitutional president, serving two terms (1897–1901 and 1906–11). Much of the administrative structure of the García Moreno era was dismantled. The anticlerical liberals, proclaiming themselves the Radical Liberal Party (Partido…
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