Gustavo Noboa
Gustavo Noboa Bejarano ( born August 21, 1937 in Guayaquil ) is a high school teacher ( lawyer) and conservative politician. He was on 22 January 2000 to 15 January 2003 President of Ecuador.
Background and education
Noboa is from Guayaquil and one of his ancestors, the ex-president Diego Noboa y Arteta. He graduated in 1962 from the Study of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Católica de Guayaquil and in 1965 received his doctorate of jurisprudence. He attended the same university from his teaching post and also taught at his former school, where Abdala Bucaram was one of his students. He was several times Dean and Vice Dean of the Law Faculty, including for a time as associate dean under the former dean and later president Jaime Roldós ( 1979-81 ). In addition, he led Catholic youth groups. Since his student days he worked as a secretary for the Sociedad Agrícola e Industrial San Carlos that the one-time richest man in Ecuador, Juan Marcos Xavier belonged, and was managed by Agustín Febres Cordero Tyler, the father of the future president León Febres Cordero. Later he worked as a lawyer for the company, especially in collective bargaining, and their owner operates.
Political and academic career
Roldós ' successor Osvaldo Hurtado appointed him in 1981 as Governor of the province of Guayas. As León Febres Cordero was elected in 1984 after a polemical campaign, in which Febres Cordero is profiled as a strong political opponent Hurtado elected president of Ecuador, Noboas ended as governor.
From 1986 to 1996 he was rector of the Universidad Católica. In addition to his teaching, he also worked in the private sector and in the context of diplomatic missions.
Vice President and President
Noboa was elected in 1999 as a non-party in tandem with Jamil Mahuad ( Democracia Popular) to its vice president. On 21 January 2000 forced by indigenous organizations ( CONAIE ) and military mid-level supported protests against the policies of Mahuad, especially against the abolition of Sucre and the introduction of the U.S. dollar as the national currency ( dollarization ) and cuts in social policy, and a related coup Mahuad to leave the presidential palace. First, a junta took over the National Salvation, consisting of Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez, the CONAIE president Antonio Vargas and the lawyer Carlos Solórzano power. However, the leadership of the Ecuadorian military procured the resolution of this junta. On 22 January, voted in the Ecuadorian National Congress 87 of 96 MPs for the dismissal Mahuad for divulging the Office and the establishment Noboas as president.
Noboa continued the policy Mahuad continued substantially and kept the dollarization at. He signed the contracts for the construction of the oil pipeline Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados ( OCP) and negotiated the external debt of the country's new after the Mahuad government unilaterally government bonds ( Brady bonds ) had previously frozen worth 400 million dollars. The insurgent army of January 21 were not granted amnesty during the year 2000. One of them, Lucio Gutiérrez, the end of 2002, won the presidential elections and was on 15 January 2003 Noboas successor.
After the presidency
About three months after the end of his term Noboa was accused of embezzling state funds as part of the renegotiation of the foreign debt. The prosecution was due to ex-president León Febres Cordero, an old political opponent Noboas. Noboa then fled to the Dominican Republic, where he applied for political asylum. In April 2005 he returned to Ecuador because of the Gutiérrez ( unconstitutional ) newly appointed Supreme Court, Guillermo Castro had dropped the charges. During simultaneous protests against Lucio Gutiérrez, which led to his dismissal on April 20, the Supreme Court was broken up by this. Under the new President Alfredo Palacio Castro's decision was set aside and placed under house arrest Noboa. Since the Supreme Court remained vacant until end of November 2005, rested the case against Noboa, which was then resumed. In March 2006, the Supreme Court ruled Noboa had to sue in the process not as perpetrators, but only as favourer ( encubridor ). Arrest and house arrest were lifted. After the connection process continued to run first, the Constituent Assembly granted on July 4, 2008, a general amnesty for Noboa.