LIBERAL REVOLUTION1895 TO 1912

CIVIL WAR CAUSES

“VENTA DE LA BANDERA”

CONSEQUENCE HIGHLAND AND

COAST SUPPORTING LIBERAL REVOLUTION

JUNE 5TH, 1895 GENERAL TURMOIL

IN PERU AND COLOMBIA

CUBA INDEPENDENCE

WHO WAS ALFARO? BORN IN

MONTECRISTI ON JUNE 25TH, 1842

MANUEL ALFARO AND NATIVIDAD DELGADO

BUSINESSMAN AND REVOLUTIONARY

FOUGHT AGAINST GARCIA MORENO, BORRERO AND VEINTIMILLA

FIRST PRESIDENCY LIBERAL GOVERNMENT

BOARD HE TRIED TO REACH AN

AGREEMENT WITH THE CHURCH (BISHOP SCHUMACHER AND MASSIA)

HE FACED AN INVASION FROM COLOMBIA “RESTAURACION CATOLICA” AND REVOLTS IN CUENCA

1896 FIRST LIBERAL CONSTITUTION (THE BIG FIRE OF GUAYAQUIL) FREEDOM OF RELIGION CHURCH FORCED TO

ACCEPT THE CHANGES 1897 – RAILROAD –

TAXES WERE INCREASED 1899 “LEY DE

PATRONATO” 1900 “REGISTRO CIVIL”

BISHOP SCHUMACHER

LIBERAL PARTY CRACKDOWN 1901 – LEONIDAS PLAZA

GUTIERREZ THE ARMY AND THE ASSEMBLY

SUPPORTED HIM GOVERNMENT BOARD FORMED BY

COAST AND HIGHLAND REPRESENTATIVES AND SOME CONSERVATIVES

HIS FIGHT WAS FOCUSED ON THE CHURCH

HE WAS SUPPORTED BY ALFARO’S ENEMIES

1905 – LIZARDO GARCIA ALFARO FORCED HIM TO

SURRENDER ON JANUARY 16TH. ALFARO’S AIM WAS TO SAVE THE

REVOLUTION

ALFARO’S SECOND PRESIDENCY 1906 – SECOND LIBERAL

CONSTITUTION IT TOOK AWAY CHURCH

PROPERTIES JULY 25TH, 1906 – THE

RAILROAD 1907- ALFARO STARTED

LOSING SUPPORT OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

1911 – VICTOR EMILIO ESTRADA – FRAUD

“We are not losing with ballots what we won with bullets.”

ESTRADA DIED IN 1911 CARLOS FREILE ZALDUMBIDE

PRESIDENCY FLAVIO ALFARO REVOLTS IN

ESMERALDAS AND GUAYAQUIL

BATTLES OF HUIGRA, NARANJITO Y YAGUACHI – ALFARO IS TAKEN AS PRISIONER.

ALFARO WAS SENT TO QUITO BY TRAIN

HE WAS MURDERED ON JANUARY 28TH, 1912

PICTURE TAKEN FROM “LA HOGUERA BARBARA”

SUMMARY ALFARO WANTED A SECULAR AND MODERN STATE

WHICH INCLUDED INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, LABOR CLASS ORGANIZATION AND FARMERS FREEDOM.

THESE AIMS WERE NOT WELCOMED BY THE BURGOISSE CLASS AND LANDOWNERS.

PEOPLE MOVILITY AND RECONSTRUCTION PLANS WERE NOT COMPLETED, BUT THERE WERE REASON ENOUGH TO GRANT HIM POWERFUL ENEMIES.

RADICAL LIBERALISM BROUGHT HIM TO POWER AND TOOK IT AWAY FROM HIM.