Abstract
In 1532 the Spaniards founded a colony in Ecuador, then called Quito. In 1821 a revolt led to the defeat of the Spaniards at Pichincha and thus independence from Spain. On 13 March 1830, Quito became the Republic of Ecuador. Political instability was endemic. From the mid-1930s, President José Maria Velasco Ibarra was deposed by military coups from four of his five presidencies.
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Hidrobo, J. A., Power and Industrialization in Ecuador. Boulder (CO), 1993
Martz, J. D., Politics and Petroleum in Ecuador. New Brunswick, 1987
Pineo, R. F., Social and Economic Reform in Ecuador. Univ. Press of Florida, 1996
Roos, W. and van Renterghem, O., Ecuador in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture. Interlink Publishing Group, Northampton (MA), 1997
Selverston-Scher, M., Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001
National Statistical Office: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (INEC), Juan Larrea 534 y Riofrio, Quito.
Website (Spanish only): http://www.inec.gov.ec/
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Turner, B. (2007). Ecuador. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2008. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-74024-6_161
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