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In 1532 the Spaniards founded a colony in Ecuador, then called Quito. In 1821 a revolt led to the defeat of the Spaniards at Pichincha and thus independence from Spain. On 13 March 1830, Quito became the Republic of Ecuador. Political instability was endemic. From the mid-1930s, President José Maria Velasco Ibarra gave more continuity to the presidential regimes, although he was deposed by military coups from four of his five presidencies.
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Hidrobo, J. A., Power and Industrialization in Ecuador Boulder (CO), 1993
Pineo, R. F., Social and Economic Reform in Ecuador Univ. Press of Florida, 1996
Roos, W. and van Renterghem, O., Ecuador in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture. Interlink Publishing Group, Northanpton (MA), 1997
Selverston-Scher, M., Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001
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Turner, B. (2003). Ecuador. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271326_157
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