Gonzalo Segundo Córdova y Rivera (15 July 1863 – 13 April 1928) was
President
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of
Ecuador
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from 1924–1925. Like his immediate predecessors in the Liberal Party, he was considered to be a pawn of "La Argolla" ("the ring"), a plutocracy of coastal agricultural and banking interests whose linchpin was the Commercial and Agricultural Bank of
Guayaquil
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led by Francisco Urbina Jado.
Popular unrest, together with an ongoing economic crisis and a sickly president, laid the foundations for a bloodless
coup d'état against Córdova in July 1925. Unlike previous coups in Ecuador, the 1925 coup was in the name of a collective grouping, the League of Young Officers, rather than a particular
caudillo
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.
He was
President of the Senate
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in 1918.
External links
Library of Congress country studies, Ecuador
1863 births
1928 deaths
Presidents of Ecuador
Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party politicians
Presidents of the Senate of Ecuador
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