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Ecuador
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Juan José Flores
Courtesy Prints and Photographs Divisions, Library of Congress
Gabriel García Moreno
Courtesy Prints and Photographs Divisions, Library of Congress
Before the year 1830 drew to a close, both Marshal Sucre and
Simón Bolívar would be dead; the former, murdered (on orders from
a jealous General Flores, according to some historians), and the
latter, from tuberculosis. Heartbroken at the dissolution of Gran
Colombia, Bolívar is quoted as saying shortly before his death,
"America is ungovernable. Those who have served the revolution have
plowed the sea." These words would seem prophetic during the
chaotic first thirty years in the life of the Republic of Ecuador.
Data as of 1989
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