... establish authority, not only in Ecuador but also in Peru and Bolivia. Failure and exile followed, but he returned to participate in the dictatorship of Gabriel Garcia Moreno. This important study of Flores's political career contains much until now unknown information about Ecuador's early independent history and the leading individuals involved in its politics. It will be of great interest to ... a modest family in Guayaquil. Gabriel moved to Quito for school and married one of the local leaders. In 1848 after the revolt, which banished Juan Jose, he left Ecuador to study theology in ...

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