Agustín Cueva Dávila ( Ibarra, September 23, 1937 –

Quito Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley o ...

, May 1, 1992) was an

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writer, literary critic, and

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sociologist. He had great interest in dependency theory and was at the center of many political debates both within

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 ...

and throughout

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. He received the Essay Award from the Siglo XXI Publishing House for his book ''El desarrollo del capitalismo en América Latina'' (1977; ''The Development of Capitalism in Latin America''). In addition to writing many essays on the social, political and cultural issues of South America, Cueva was a professor at the

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, President of the Latin American Sociological Association, and directed the Graduate Studies Division of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the

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. He died of cancer in Quito on May 1, 1992.The Autobiographical Dictionary of Ecuador: AGUSTIN CUEVA DAVILA

Works

* ''Entre la Ira y la Esperanza'', 1967. * Dos estudios literarios, 1968. * Literatura ecuatoriana, 1968. * El proceso de dominación política en el Ecuador, 1972. * El desarrollo del capitalismo en América Latina, 1977. * Teoría social y procesos políticos en América Latina, 1979. * Lecturas y rupturas, 1986. * La teoría marxista, 1987. * Tiempos conservadores. América Latina y la derechización de Occidente -compilador-, 1987. * Las democracias restringidas de América Latina en la frontera de los años 90, 1989. * Literatura y conciencia histórica en América Latina, 1994.

References

1937 births 1992 deaths Ecuadorian sociologists Ecuadorian male writers People from Ibarra, Ecuador Academic staff of the Central University of Ecuador Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Ecuadorian Marxists Ecuadorian political scientists 20th-century political scientists {{Ecuador-writer-stub