Alberto Enríquez Gallo

Alberto Enríquez Gallo ( born July 24, 1895 at Hacienda Santa Rosa Grande, Tanicuchí, Latacunga, † July 13, 1962 in Quito ) was an Ecuadorian military and 23 October 1937 to August 10, 1938 dictator of his country.

He was involved in the crackdown on the uprisings alfaristischen 1910 and 1911 and in the revolution of 1925. After the fall of Velasco Ibarra in 1935 he was appointed by President Federico interimischen Páez, who was also his godfather, promoted to General and sworn in as Secretary of Defense. However, when Páez tried to manipulate the Constituent Assembly of 1937, Enríquez Gallo rushed him and declared himself dictator. In 1938 he called a new Constituent Assembly and handed her the power.

Then he drew largely from politics, but in 1948 was an unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Ecuadorian Socialist Party and from 1956 to 1960 Senator for Cotopaxi.

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