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Romina Muñoz
Romina Muñoz Procel (born 1984) is an Ecuadorian former museum boss who became the Minister of Culture in Ecuador in 2023. Life Muñoz was born in 1984 in Guayaquil. She was educated in the Visual Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. She also has a master's degree in neotropical archaeology from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral. Muñoz led the (MuNa) starting in June 2021. She created an exhibition titled 'Polyfonia' featuring the work of the artist, Alba Calderón, within the ''Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana'' in Quito when she was the head of the national museum from 2021 to 2023. She pointed out that MuNa was serving the government more than the people and it did not have its own building in September 2023 and that ended her job at the museum. She spoke out while opening another exhibition she had created for the artist Judith Gutiérrez. She also complained that the museum's staff were not permanent employees. She said that she was sacked t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guayaquil
Guayaquil (), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital (political), capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is located on the west bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil. With a population of 2,746,403 inhabitants, it is the most populous city in the country, and the fifth largest in the Andean Community. However, its urban fabric extends beyond its official urban parishes, encompassing nearby cities and parishes; thus, the Guayaquil metropolitan area reaches a population of 3,618,450, making it the most populous urban agglomeration in the nation, and also the fifth in the Andean Community. As the largest city, it is one of the two main development poles of the country—alongside Quito, the national capital—hosting Ecuador’s main business, financial, cultural, and sports institutions. After seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arianna Tanca
Arianna Tanca Macchiavello is a political analyst who became a government minister. She was involved in commenting on the 2023 Ecuadorian general election and at the end in November 2023, the winner, Daniel Noboa, invited her to became the Ecuadorian Minister of Women and Human Rights. Life Tanca obtained her degree in political science and international relations at Casa Grande University in Guayaquil. In August 2023 Fernando Villavicencio, who was a candidate for the presidential election, was assassinated and Tanca, as a political commentator, was providing context to the listeners of the AirTalk broadcasts. In September 2023 the second round of the Presidential election was in progress and Tanca was reporting on the race. Daniel Noboa was elected president and he invited her to become a minister when he took office. Many were announced that day and she was one of the last to be sworn in at the Palacio de Carondelet. She noted that Noboa was at least "changing one life at a tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Guayaquil
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1984 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 9 – Van Halen releases their sixth studio album ''1984 (Van Halen album), 1984'' (''MCMLXXXIV''), which debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and will go to sell over 10 million copies in the United States. * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican City, Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria, Seychelles, Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh 128K, Macintosh personal computer in the United States. *January 27 – American singer Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire during the making of the Pepsi commercial. February * February 3 ** John Buster and the research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museo Antropologico Y De Arte Contemporaneo
Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo (English: "Anthropological and Contemporary Art Museum"), or MAAC is a state-of-the-art museum in Guayaquil, Ecuador celebrating Ecuadorian, Latin American and Pre-Columbian art and culture. MAAC is a welcome addition to Malecón 2000, the renovated riverwalk in Guayaquil. Inaugurated on 30 July 2003, MAAC aims to act as a catalyst for the development of the local, regional and national artistic culture. MAAC's mission is to harness the institutional cultural patrimony, by showcasing a valuable collection of 50,000 native Ecuadorian archaeological pieces and over 3,000 modern works of art. The MAAC offers many integrated programs that include exhibitions, conferences, round tables, workshops, projections of cinema, scenic arts, through which it aims to put Ecuador's cultural patrimony at the service of the development of the country and to help in cultural education of the community. Past exhibitions * 2004–2005 — Sala Autoral, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Sommerfeld
María Gabriela Sommerfeld Rosero became the Ecuadorian foreign minister in 2023. She led tourism for Quito, and had been the CEO of multiple airlines and a leading hotel. Life Sommerfeld was educated at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and she went on to take an MBA at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. In 2002 she was the President of the Ecuadorian airline Avianca Ecuador, Aerogal. That airline is now Avianca Ecuador. In 2016 she was managing tourism for the city of Quito in a year when there had been a large earthquake which had largely avoided the city but it had caused an estimated three billion dollars of damage and killed nearly 500 people. In 2015 about 700,000 tourists had come or travelled through Quito. She was announced as the CEO of the short lived Equair airline when it was launched in January 2022. Although Frederik Jacobsen was also announced with a similar title. She held a high position on the airline industry before she became the CEO o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Palencia
Monica may refer to: People *Monica (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Monica (actress) (born 1987), Indian film actress * Mônica (footballer, born 1978) (Mônica Angélica de Paula) * Mônica (footballer, born 1987) (Mônica Hickmann Alves) *Monica (singer) (born 1980) *Saint Monica, mother of Augustine Places * Monica, Kentucky, U.S. * 833 Monica, a minor planet Arts, entertainment and media Film * ''Monica'' (2011 film), an Indian film * ''Monica'' (2022 film), an American-Italian film Music * MONICA, a Scottish band with members of The Apples and others * "Monica" (song), by The Kinks, 1968 *"Monica", a song by Dan Bern from the 1998 album ''Fifty Eggs'' *"Monica", a 1984 song by Kōji Kikkawa **covered by Leslie Cheung, 1984 **covered by Leo Ku on the 2005 album ''Jade Solid Gold'' Other uses in arts and entertainment *Monica, a fictional country in ''Æon Flux'' *Monica, a fictional planet in David Weber's science fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivonne Núñez
Ivonne Núñez Figueroa is an Ecuadorian lawyer by profession, with diplomas in international and Ecuadorian economics. She holds master’s degrees in international business and foreign trade, as well as in constitutional law. She practiced law for over 16 years before being appointed as a Judge in the areas of criminal, traffic, and juvenile law. She was later assigned as an Appellate Judge in the Labor Chamber. Since November 2023, she has served as the Minister of Labor in the government of President Daniel Noboa Azin. Life Núñez became a qualified lawyer and she has a doctorate from the Argentinian University of Mar del Plata. She became a judge at the Provincial Court of Justice of Guayas. In 2016 Núñez was accused along with four other judges of having interfered with cases in the Criminal and Labor Chambers. All five of them lost their positions as judges. She took on the case of Ricardo Rivera. She was the first defense lawyer for Ricardo Rivera who had been accuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecuadorian
Ecuadorians () 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 (archaeology), 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 Black Ecuadorians, 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 the 2022 census, 77.5% of the population identified as Mestizo, a mix of Spanish and Indig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Noboa
Daniel Roy Gilchrist Noboa Azín ( ; ; born30 November 1987) is an Ecuadorian politician and businessman serving as the 48th and current president of Ecuador since 2023. Having first taken office at the age of 35, he is the second-youngest president in the country's history, after Juan José Flores, and the youngest to be elected. Noboa was a member of the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly of Ecuador from 2021 until 2023 when it 2023 Ecuadorian political crisis, was dissolved following the ''muerte cruzada'' constitutional mechanism invoked by President Guillermo Lasso. Before his political career, Noboa served in several positions at Noboa Corporation, an exporting business founded by his father Álvaro Noboa, a billionaire who unsuccessfully ran for president of Ecuador five times. He has been widely described as an heir to his father's company and fortune. In May 2023, Noboa announced his candidacy for president in the 2023 Ecuadorian general election, 2023 sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
