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Bucaram is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Abdalá Bucaram (born 1952), Ecuadorian politician and lawyer, President of Ecuador from 10 August 1996 to 6 February 1997 *Assad Bucaram (1916–1981), Ecuadorian politician of Lebanese descent, Mayor of Guayaquil (1962–1963, 1968–1970) *Martha Bucaram (born 1963), Ecuadorian economist and politician *Averroes Bucaram Averroes Bucaram Záccida (14 October 1954 – 1 December 2018) was an Ecuadorian politician who was Speaker of National Congress (1985–1986, 1990) and MP (1984–1986, 1988–1992).
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Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortiz ( ; ; born 20 February 1952) is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who was President of Ecuador from 10 August 1996, to 6 February 1997. As President, Abdalá Bucaram was nicknamed "El Loco Que Ama" ("The Madman Who Loves", a nickname he himself championed) and was removed from office after being declared mentally unfit to rule by the National Congress of Ecuador on 12 February 1997. Bucaram claims innocence now that all cases against him have been dismissed. He lived in exile in Panama under Political Asylum laws, then returned to Ecuador in 2017 when the charges against him expired. Family political background Born in Guayaquil, Bucaram is the son of Jacobo Bucaram Elmhalin (1920-1967), the son of Lebanese immigrants, and Rina Ortiz Caicedo (1926-1982). He grew up playing football in the streets of Guayaquil and later went on to become a successful athlete and earn a degree in physical education. He was also a hurdler. He was the flag bearer for ...
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Assad Bucaram
Assad Bucaram Elmhalin (24 December 1916 – 5 November 1981) was an Ecuadorian politician of Lebanese descent, he occupied positions as city Councilor and later of Mayor of Guayaquil (1962–1963, 1967–1970). He was elected a Deputy for the province of Guayaquil and was later appointed President of the National Assembly of Ecuador. Political career The son of Lebanese immigrants Abdalá Bucaram Abi Karam and Martha Elmhalin, Bucaram had little formal education but had a highly successful business career as a result of which he became very wealthy.Phil Gunson, Andrew Thompson & Greg Chamberlain, ''The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America'', London: Routledge, 1990, p. 49 In 1961 he took over the ailing Concentración de Fuerzas Populares party (CFP), a party that up to that point had presented an anti-oligarchic but anti-communist ideology in a similar vein to Peronism, and turned it into a personal vehicle for his populist appeals. He threw his weight behind th ...
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Martha Bucaram
Martha Bucaram Ortiz (12 October 1941, Guayaquil – 24 May 1981, Celica, Ecuador, Celica) was an Ecuadorian lawyer and feminist who was First Lady of Ecuador to President Jaime Roldós Aguilera, with whom she was killed in a plane crash. Biography Martha Bucaram Ortiz was the firstborn child of Lebanon, Lebanese immigrant Jacobo Bucaram Elmhalin and Ecuadorian Rina Ortiz Caicedo, sister of athlete and future President of Ecuador, Abdalá Bucaram. In 1962, she married Jaime Roldós Aguilera and gave birth to three children. Her firstborn daughter, Martha Roldós, has entered politics and became a deputy in the Ethics and Democracy Network party. First Lady of Ecuador When Jaime Roldós Aguilera assumed the President of Ecuador, Presidency of Ecuador, Bucaram became the First Lady of Ecuador, First Lady and assumed the traditional office of president of the National Institute for Children and the Family. As a feminist, Bucaram fought for changes to the Civil Code of Ecuador t ...
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