León Febres Cordero

León Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra was the president of Ecuador from 1984 to 1988. He was born in Guayaquil on March 9, 1931 and was a leader of the Social Christian Party.

His government is characterized by multiple violations of human rights such as torture, rape, extrajudicial execution and disappearance of people to which is added a strong inflation and the high price of gasoline. The government had as its main goal to destroy the guerrilla Alfaro Vive Carajo! which was against the ideals of the government, it was also used as an excuse for the guerrilla to exert reprisal against the people, in the end the guerrilla was almost extinct. His government was backed by the United States and broke relations with Sandinista Nicaragua to do the dictatorships of Chile and Guatemala. He also refused to recognize racism in South Africa. Finally he left office in 1988 and died of lung cancer on December 15, 2008 at age 77.