León febres cordero biografia

Ecuadorian politician

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Febres-Cordero and the second or maternal family name is Ribadeneyra.

León Esteban Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra (9 March – 15 December ), known in the Ecuadorian media as LFC or more simply Febres-Cordero, was an Ecuadorian politician who was the 35th President of Ecuador, serving a four-year term from 10 August to 10 August During his presidency he sought to introduce market-oriented reforms, and also led a security crackdown on a guerrilla group named ¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo!.^[1][2]

Early life

Febres-Cordero was born in a wealthy Guayaquil family on 9 March His father sent him to study in the United States, where he first attended Charlotte Hall Military Academy in Maryland, then Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania for high school, and then graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ (which he vi