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María Fernanda Tamayo
María Fernanda Tamayo Rivera is an Ecuadorian law enforcement official, the first woman to become the country's inspector general of police. Early years María Fernanda Tamayo was born in Shell Mera, Pastaza Province, Ecuador. She has three brothers and two sisters. Since she was 8 years old, she showed signs of her vocation to join the police force. She was inspired by watching the American TV series ''Police Woman'', starring Angie Dickinson. Her mother always supported her in her aspirations. However, after finishing her secondary education, Tamayo could not attend the Superior Police School since women were not yet admitted to the institution, so she opted for her second passion, technology, and entered the National Polytechnic School as a systems engineering major. Police career Two years later, Tamayo left the program after the National Police began to admit women, receiving 700 applicants, of which 32 were selected. She was part of the first women's class in 1983. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shell Mera
Shell (also Shell Mera) is a city located on the western edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon and in the eastern foothills of the Andes. It is located about southeast of Quito, and roughly west of the provincial capital, Puyo. Its name comes from the Royal Dutch Shell corporation. Shell Oil base Shell Mera was established in 1937 as a Shell Oil Company base. The base consisted of little more than several basic shacks and a airstrip. It was operated as part of Shell's prospecting efforts in the region. The base was located near some Indian tribes who strongly opposed the exploitation of resources found in their ancestral territories. The Indians attacked Shell several times, resulting in the deaths of several employees. The oil company abandoned the base in 1948. However, it is more likely that business prospects had more to do with the decision. It was during this time that the Middle East rose in prominence in the oil industry, since it was becoming much more productive. After ten y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Police Of Ecuador
The National Police of Ecuador ( es, Policía Nacional del Ecuador) is the national police force and the main civil law enforcement agency of Ecuador. It is commanded by the Commanding General (') and subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. Controversies Human rights The United States Country Reports on Human Rights Practices has consistently identified major human rights abuses by Ecuadorian security forces, including: isolated unlawful killings and use of excessive force by security forces, sometimes with impunity, poor prison conditions, arbitrary arrest and detention, corruption and other abuses by security forces, a high number of pretrial detainees, and corruption and denial of due process within the judicial system. Members of the National Police have been accused of murder, attempted murder, rape, extortion, kidnappings, and alien smuggling. Corruption In a 2009 diplomatic cable from the United States diplomatic cables leak released by WikiLeaks and published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Telégrafo (Ecuador)
''El Telégrafo'' is a Spanish-language Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper in Guayaquil, Ecuador founded in 1884. It is the oldest newspaper in Ecuador. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Telégrafo (Ecuador), El Newspapers published in Ecuador Publications established in 1884 Spanish-language newspapers, Telégrafo (Ecuador) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Woman (TV Series)
''Police Woman'' is an American police procedural television series created by Robert L. Collins, starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978. Synopsis Based on an original screenplay by Lincoln C. Hilburn, the series revolves around Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson (Dickinson), an undercover police officer working for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Sergeant William "Bill" Crowley (Earl Holliman) was her immediate superior, and Pete Royster (Charles Dierkop) and Joe Styles (Ed Bernard) were the other half of the undercover team that investigated everything from murders to rape and drug crimes. In many episodes, Pepper went undercover (as a prostitute, nurse, teacher, flight attendant, prison inmate, dancer, waitress, etc.) to get close enough to the suspects to gain valuable information that would lead to their arrest. Character's name Although Dickinson's character was called Pepper, sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Dickinson
Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in ''Gun the Man Down'' (1956) with James Arness and the Western film '' Rio Bravo'' (1959), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. In her six-decade career, Dickinson has appeared in more than 50 films, including '' China Gate'' (1957), ''Ocean's 11'' (1960), ''The Sins of Rachel Cade'' (1961), '' Jessica'' (1962), '' Captain Newman, M.D.'' (1963), ''The Killers'' (1964), '' The Art of Love'' (1965), '' The Chase'' (1966), ''Point Blank'' (1967), ''Pretty Maids All in a Row'' (1971), ''The Outside Man'' (1972), and ''Big Bad Mama'' (1974). From 1974 to 1978, Dickinson starred as Sergeant "Pepper" Anderson in the NBC crime series '' Police Woman'', for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Polytechnic School (Ecuador)
The National Polytechnic School (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Escuela Politécnica Nacional''), also known as EPN, is a public university in Quito, Ecuador. The campus, called "José Rubén Orellana", is located at the sector center-oriental of Quito. It occupies an area of 15.2 hectares and has a built area of around 62,000 metres2. Its student body numbers approximately 10,000 of which thirty percent are women. The main campus encompasses ten teaching and research faculties, in addition to four technical and specialized institutes. EPN was founded in 1869 with the aim of becoming the first technical and technological center in the country. Since its beginnings, EPN adopted the History of European research universities, polytechnic university model, which stresses laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. At the campus, there are some libraries with a content primarily oriented to engineering and scientific topics. EPN has been consistently ranked among the top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Systems Engineering
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking principles to organize this body of knowledge. The individual outcome of such efforts, an engineered system, can be defined as a combination of components that work in synergy to collectively perform a useful Function (engineering), function. Issues such as requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability and many other Discipline (academia), disciplines necessary for successful system design, development, implementation, and ultimate decommission become more difficult when dealing with large or complex projects. Systems engineering deals with work-processes, optimization methods, and risk management tools in such projects. It overlaps technical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenín Moreno
Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés (; born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...ian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador, from 2017 to 2021. Moreno was Vice President of Ecuador, vice president from 2007 to 2013, serving under President Rafael Correa. He was nominated as the candidate for Correa's PAIS Alliance, a social democratic political party, in the 2017 Ecuadorian general election, 2017 presidential election and won a narrow victory in Ecuador's Two-round system, second round of voting on 2 April 2017. However, after his election Moreno drastically shifted his political stance, distancing himself from Correa's leftist legacy in both domestic and foreign policy. By the end of Moreno’s presidency, he had left office wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Paula Romo
María Paula Romo (born 4 June 1979) is an Ecuadorian politician that served as Minister of Government under President Lenin Moreno. She was a member of the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly, Constituent Assembly that crafted Ecuador's current Constitution between 2007 and 2008. She later won a seat at the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly of Ecuador for the period 2009–2013. Life She entered politics in 2004 as one of the founders of "Ruptura de los 25", a political leftist movement that participated in the protests that toppled then-president Lucio Gutiérrez. Two years later, Ruptura de los 25 supported Rafael Correa in his successful bid to become Ecuador's President in the 2006 Ecuadorian general election, Ecuadorian 2006 general election. The group broke their alliance with Correa in 2010 after he took actions they perceived as authoritarian. Romo participated along Ruptura de los 25 in the 2013 Ecuadorian general election, 2013 general election in opposi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Universo
''El Universo'' (Spanish for "The Universe") is one of the largest daily newspapers in Ecuador. It was founded in 1921 and the first edition was published September 16 of the same year. Its headquarters are located in Guayaquil. The newspaper has been published since its foundation with only small interruptions during the dictatorship. The founder was Ismael Pérez Pazmiño. ''El Universo'' is a member of ''Asociación Ecuatoriana de Editores de Periódicos (AEDEP)'', ''Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP)'' and the '' World Association of Newspapers (WAN).'' Sections * Política – Politics * Economía – Economics * Sucesos – Crime * Migración – Migration * País – News from the provinces * Internacionales- International news * Marcador – Sports * El Gran Guayaquil – Guayaquil News * Vida – Life style * En Escena – Show business Supplements * Sambo, a magazine-style supplement published monthly for Samborondón. * Mi Mundo, children supplement published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecuadorian Police Officers
Ecuadorians ( es, ecuatorianos) are people identified with the South American country of Ecuador. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Ecuadorians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Ecuadorian''. Numerous indigenous cultures inhabited what is now Ecuadorian territory for several millennia before the expansion of the Inca Empire in the fifteenth century. The Las Vegas culture of coastal Ecuador is one of the oldest cultures in the Americas. The Valdivia culture is another well-known early Ecuadorian culture. Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century, as did sub-Saharan Africans who were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic by Spaniards and other Europeans. The modern Ecuadorian population is principally descended from these three ancestral groups. As of 2010, 77.4% of the population identified as "Mestizos", a mix of Spanish and Indigenous American ancestry, up from 71.9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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