Santiago gangotena y rafael correa biography
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Branding himself as “the biblical underdog” (Hedgecoe , paragraph 4), charismatic academic Rafael Correa distanced himself from the country's political.
Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador from to
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Correa and the second or maternal family name is Delgado.
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (Spanish pronunciation:[rafaˈelβiˈsentekoˈre.aðelˈɣaðo]; born 6 April ) is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from to The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until , Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies.
Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR. Since , he has been living in exile in Belgium.
Born to a lower middle-class mestizo family in Guayaquil, Correa studied economics at the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), and the University of Illinois, where he received his PhD.
Returning to Ecuador, in he became the Minister for the Economy under President Al