Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy ( born August 24, 1919 in Guayaquil, † March 5, 2004 ) was an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. Between 1961 and 1963 he was president of his country.
Arosemena was the son of Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola bankers from Guayaquil, officiated the 1947/48 as president of Ecuador. The later President Otto Arosemena ( 1966-68 ) was his cousin. Arosemena Monroy studied law at the University of Guayaquil, where he also earned his doctorate and later taught as a professor of international law. Arosemena Monroy was a supporter of the populist politician José María Velasco Ibarra and during his third presidency ( 1952-56 ) temporarily defense minister (1952 ) and co-founder and Secretary General of the Federación Nacional party Velasquista. In the presidential elections in 1960, he ran as the vice presidential candidate of the victorious Velasco. Nevertheless, he expressed public protest against various measures that met the President and thus support, the public protests. Velasco tried to overthrow the vice president, but was eventually deposed by the Congress itself. Arosemena came on 9 November 1961, his successor.
The Presidency Arosemenas was characterized by strong ideological confrontation as a result of the Cuban Revolution. Arosemena eventually distanced himself from the new Cuban government, but took no clear position for the United States. He was nationally oriented and anti-imperialist. Inside he reigned unions open-minded about and adopted, among other decrees on the 40 -hour week and the payment of a thirteenth monthly salary. During his presidency, the airline TAME was founded.
He was repeatedly criticized by opposition politicians because of excessive alcohol consumption at official occasions and survived an impeachment. On 11 July 1963 he was deposed by a military junta led by Rear Admiral Ramon Castro Jijón who also took over the government. Arosemena had made the night before at a speech at the reception of U.S. investors america critical remarks. He was exiled to Panama.
With the renewed free elections of 1966 he ran for the Ecuadorian Parliament, into which he moved for the second time after 1952. Once again, he was in 1968, 1980 and most recently in 1992 elected to Congress. In 1969 he founded his own political party, the Movimiento Nacional was first called Arosemenista (Eng. " Arosemenistische National Movement" ), then Partido Nacionalista Revolucionario (Eng. " Nationalist Revolutionary Party") and was considered a populist party of the center.
In 1994, Arosemena Supreme Court judge in Ecuador.