Rodrigo Paz Delgado (20 December 1933 – 17 August 2021
) was an Ecuadorian politician and businessman. He was the mayor of
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 ...
from 1988 to 1992.
He ran as a presidential candidate in 1995–6. One of his political parties was
Democracia Popular (DP).
Paz was
Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
from 1980 to 1981. He had been the principal director of
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito since 1997, but had been involved with the club since 1959.
On August 17, 2021, Paz died of gastrointestinal bleeding in
Tampa
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,
Florida
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at the age of 87.
Rodrigo Paz Delgado falleció a los 87 años; se declaran 3 días de luto en Quito
(in Spanish)
References
External links
El Comercio profile
1933 births
2021 deaths
Mayors of Quito
Ecuadorian Ministers of Finance
Ecuadorian businesspeople
L.D.U. Quito
Christian Democratic Union (Ecuador) politicians
People from Tulcán
Deaths from gastrointestinal hemorrhage
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