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Rafael Correa
president of Ecuador
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- In full:
- Rafael Correa Delgado
- Title / Office:
- president (2007-2017), Ecuador
Rafael Correa (born April 6, 1963, Guayaquil, Ecuador) is an economist and politician who was president of Ecuador (2007–17). Correa, whose maternal grandfather was a great-nephew of former president José Eloy Alfaro, had a difficult childhood. During a period of unemployment, his father agreed to carry illegal drugs aboard a flight to the United States and was arrested and served several years in jail. Correa attended the prestigious San José La Salle high school on a scholarship, and he spent a year as a church-sponsored volunteer with Quechua-speaking Indians in Cotopaxi province. He later received a master’s degree from the ...(100 of 1428 words)