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Eloy Alfaro

1842–1912 · 19th century

Eloy Alfaro was the leader of Ecuador's Liberal Revolution of 1895 and president from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911. He separated church and state, introduced civil marriage and secular education, and completed the Guayaquil–Quito railway in 1908. In January 1912 he was imprisoned in Quito, where a mob killed him and burned his body.

Eloy Alfaro
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