Eloy Alfaro


Jos Eloy Alfaro Delgado served as President of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911. He became one of the strongest opponents of proCatholic conservative President Gabriel Garcia Moreno . For his central role in the Liberal Revolution of 1895 and for having fought conservatism for almostyears, he is known as the Viejo Luchador .

Alfaro was born in Montecristi, on June 25, 1842. His father was don Manuel Alfaro y Gonzlez, a Spanish Republican native of Cervera del Ro Alhama, La Rioja, Spain who arrived in Ecuador as a political exile his mother was doa Mara Natividad Delgado Lpez.

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