Guillermo Rodríguez (politician)

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Guillermo Rodriguez (Ecuador) — Guillermo Rodríguez Lara (born November 4, 1924 in Pujilí, Cotopaxi), known as "Bombita", was military dictator of Ecuador from February 15, 1972 to January 11, 1976. Attribution: Romanian Communist Party archives.

Overview[]

General Guillermo Rodríguez Lara (born November 4, 1924), known as "Bombita", is a former military dictator of Ecuador who came was power from February 15, 1972 to January 11, 1976. He took courses in C&R&Bn Staff, Irregular Warfare Orientation, and Maintenance Management at the School of the Americas in Panama.

As commander of the army, he led a military coup d'etat executed by a navy commander named Jorge Queirolo G. and forced president José María Velasco into exile, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Ecuadorian military removed him from power in 1976.

Stats[]

Birth name- Guillermo Rodríguez Lara.
Nickname(s)- Bombita.
Born on- November 4, 1924 (age 92).
Born in- Pujilí, Ecuador.
Nationality- Ecuadorian.
Service/branch- Army.
Years of service- N\A.
Rank- General.
Battles/wars- N\A.
Spouse(s) and kids- Aída Judith León. 5 kids: Nancy, Guillermo, Geoconda, Myriam and Antonio.
Relations- N\A.
Other work- President of Ecuador, engineer and farmer.
Alma mater- School of the Americas and Western Hemisphere Institute for Security.
Religion- Roman Catholic.
Awards- The Great Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

Career[]

He was a soldier, President of Ecuador, engineer and farmer. During his rule aster the 1972 coup, the drilling the country's oil reserves funded the construction of hospitals, schools, roads (notably, paving the Quito-Tulcán road), the oil refinery at Esmeraldas; brought in agrarian reform, reduced dependence on imports and new equipment for the armed services such as a Sepecat Jaguar fighter plane (its first supersonic fighter jet) and 3 speedboats equipped with Exocet missiles.

Political exile[]

The Ecuadorian military removed him from power in 1976 and they sent him in exile.

Awards[]

The Great Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic.

Also see[]

Latin American juntas and dictatorships! (1944-1992)
Operation Condor, Operation PBFortune and other black-opps	Black-opps - Operation PBFortune - special-opps- Operation Condor- American collusion in Operation Condor- French collusion in Operation Condor- Argentina's "Dirty War" - Operation Soberanía - La Violencia - Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - United States involvement in regime change in Latin America - 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état - United States invasion of Panama - Panamanian 'Dignity Battalions' - Port Belgrano Naval Base
Systems of state repression	The "La Técnica" torture center - Vill Gremadi Detention Center - Dirección Nacional de Asuntos Técnicos - Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) - Panamanian 'Dignity Battalions' - Death flight - Political disappearances
The ones who tried to get nukes	Brazil (failed) - Chile (failed) - Argentina (failed) - Cuba (gave them up) - Cuban Missile Crisis
Economics	Paving the Quito-Tulcán road in the early 1970s - Argentine Cold War era hyper inflation- Brazil's development of the Amazon region in the 1970s- Transamazon Highway (BR-230) (the 1970s part)
Politics and Geo-politics	Falklands sovereignty dispute - 1982 Falklands War - Cold War - Operation Soberanía - Beagle conflict - Snipe incident - United States invasion of Panama - 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties
Technology	Alacrán (Condor IAIII) missile - The Condor and Alacrán missile programs - El Torero Enojado (fake aircraft) - FMA IA 58 Pucará - FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II
People	General Augusto Pinochet - Alfredo Stroessner - Jorge Rafael Videla - Guillermo Rodríguez (politician) - Leopoldo Galtieri - Juan Domingo Perón -Gustavo Rojas Pinilla- Luis García Meza Tejada - Juan María Bordaberry - Marcos Pérez Jiménez - Manuel Apolinario Odría - João Goulart -Dwight D. Eisenhower - Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno - Anastasio Somoza García - Rafael Trujillo - Fulgencio Batista - Fidel Castro - Carlos Castillo Armas - Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North - Omar Torrijos - Anastasio Somoza Debayle - Luis Somoza Debayle - General Oswaldo López Arellano - (General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García - General Romeo Lucas García - General Carlos Humberto Romero
Important places	The "La Técnica" torture center - Vill Gremadi Detention Center - Port Belgrano Naval Base
Wars and civil wars	Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - Contras - Sandinistas - Operation Soberanía - Argentina's "Dirty War" - 1982 Falklands War - Operation Soberanía - Beagle conflict - Snipe incident - La guerra del fútbol - Guatemalan Civil War - Salvadoran Civil War - Guerrilla Army of the Poor - 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution
Other stuff	601 Commando Company - 602 Commando Company - 601 Air Assault Regiment - 5th Marine Battalion (Argentina) - Guatemalan genocide against the Maya - Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation