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Ecuadorian Eloy Alfaro



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By: Agencia EFE

be displayed in Montecristi, the birthplace of the leader of the Liberal Revolution, "a symbol of peace and remembrance of the struggle for change.

This was stated by Efe Tatiana Hidrovo, historian and president of the civic center "Ciudad Alfaro", where citizens can see the sword and baton general, the state bought the Alfaro family (1842-1912) by $ 62,000, although in reality "the pieces are priceless."

The sword of the "Old Fighter" was in the house of one of the general's family under "80,000 keys," Efe said his granddaughter Irene Marquez de la Plata.

Of 93 inches long, an average of two inches wide, except for irregularly shaped handle, sword and scabbard were gold and silver metal, decorated in high and low reliefs.


"There is a piece that is used for war, is a kind of emblem, symbol: it is more like a piece of art, a symbol of triumph of the Ecuadorian people's struggle for nineteenth century to build a democratic state of law, "said Hidrovo.


The sword, which has a coat of Ecuador before 1910, recalls a historical process in the country.


"armed demonstrations begin in 1864, triumph after 31 years of struggle, and from 1895 to 1912 carried out a series of profound changes that can lay the foundations of state national and state law, "said Hidrovo.


recalled that were consolidated in part "the borders, the first fundamental civil rights, establishing a precedent stronger sense of national sovereignty, is carrying out a series of transformations of a liberal radical. "





In the fight Alfaro consolidated several respects: they were separated Church and State, consolidated the right to freedom of expression, freedom of worship and created the basic system of secular public education, among others, recalled.


"We want to appeal to the sword as an instrument of war, but peace, because the process of popular struggle based on guerrilla warfare and fought in the nineteenth century," he said .

Even then, he said, "created the foundations for a democratic state" and now corresponds to "continue this process of profound change on the basis of a peace process and democracy."

also be delivered today to the citizens the baton Alfaro, given the general and twice president of Ecuador for the shoe company, "tangible proof of how a the middle class and how it starts to become a political actor, "he said.


told Marquez de la Plata that winning the battle in 1895 before he was to proclaim the Republic's supreme leader, Alfaro told his wife, Dona Ana, a telegram to Panama: "Lady put her foot sword libertarian. Bless providence, we embrace our children. "


Márquez de la Plata, 48, is one of five great-grandchildren of Alfaro who still lives in Ecuador, where there are also 3 great-grandchildren and ten chuznietos, and ensures that it vein Alfarista marked the life.


The joy that invokes the talk of the struggle and revolution Alfaro liberal (1895-1924) is opaque to remember how the "old fighter" was assassinated in 1912 by a mob entered the jail in Quito where he was imprisoned.






Revolution Monument


She lived with her grandfather, the boy featured in the Alfaro knees in historical photographs. He remembers that his grandfather was a "very just and fair", it made no difference or economic class, and it has passed through generations, he said. also shows a miniature train and gold that brought the coast and the mountains, one of its major structural work to bring the Ecuadorians. EFE

Now the sword and all its historical legacy is displayed alongside other historical belongings of "Condor of America", as Alfaro called a writer, as a Mason and a clothing civil suit .