Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra - The Leader

Some leaders are known for their personality, styles, charisma and accomplishments, leaders who served as role models for past, present and future generations, leaders that make the difference anywhere they go, leaders that only need a balcony to become a president of a country, leaders from the people and for the people, leaders like Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, a man who became five times president of Ecuador because of the people’s decision.

The intention of this paper is to analyze the personal history and behaviors of Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, one of the greatest political leader in the history of Ecuador. Throughout the history of Ecuador, there has been a large number of sitting presidents who have not finished their full presidential terms. While some presidents succeed in completing their presidencies, many do not. This paper focuses on Ecuadoran President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra and his characteristics as a leader analyzing personal history, traits, skills and behaviors. Velasco held presidential office on five separate occasions, only one of which, he held for a full term of four consecutive years.

Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra was born in Quito on March 19 of 1893. He was son of Juan Velasco Alejandrino Sarda and Delia Ibarra Soberon. Never went to school and completed his studies with his mother. At 16 he suffered the loss of his father; made high school in San Gabriel Centennial College and graduated with a PHD of Jurisprudence at the Central University of Ecuador; he studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris. By then Velasco Ibarra started to develop his leadership traits, extraverted, intelligent, very fluent in his ideas and thoughts, the first stage on his process to become a great people’s leader.

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...ay everybody run. Velasco Ibarra did not arrive to the government through frauds usual in some Spanish American countries.

His wife Corina Parral de Velasco Ibarra died in Buenos Aires, falling from a public bus, since spouses Velasco Ibarra had no vehicle, or any other material good. This advanced the death of Velasco Ibarra, who in his old age did not support such an incident and after his return to Ecuador, arriving said, "I come to meditate and die." A few days later, on March 30 of 1979 , died in Quito.

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