Gonzalo Segundo Córdova y Rivera (15 July 1863 – 13 April 1928) was President of Ecuador from 1924–1925. Like his immediate predecessors in the Liberal Party, he was considered[by whom?] 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 led by Francisco Urbina Jado.
Gonzalo Córdova | |
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| 21st President of Ecuador | |
| In office 1 September 1924 – 9 July 1925 | |
| Preceded by | José Luis Tamayo |
| Succeeded by | Luis Telmo Paz |
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| Born | 15 July 1863 Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| Died | 13 April 1928 (aged 64) Valparaíso, Chile |
| Political party | Radical Liberal |
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.
He was President of the Senate in 1918.
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