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Elisabeth Elliot (née Howard; December 21, 1926 – June 15, 2015) was a Christian missionary, author, and speaker. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca people (now known as Huaorani; also rendered as Waorani or Waodani) of eastern Ecuador. She later spent two years as a ...
Ana Cecilia Blum (born 1972), novelist, journalist; Veronica Bonilla (born 1962), prolific children's writer, publishes in Spanish and English; Rosa Borja de Ycaza (1889–1964), playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, feminist
Lorena Bobbitt - Ecuadorian-American woman made famous after assaulting her husband María Capovilla - supercentenarian, at one time the oldest living person in the world Mariana Carcelén - aristocrat, Marchioness, wife of independence leader Antonio José de Sucre and as such First Lady of Bolivia
Carnero was shot by hitmen on motorcycles in a public street. She was 29. [3] Carnero had been holding a public meeting. [4] She died at the hospital in Naranjal. [5] Former President Rafael Correa paid tribute to Carnero. [4]
Ecuadorian literature has been characterized for essentially being costumbrista [1] and, in general, closely linked to events that are exclusively national in nature, with narratives that provide a glimpse into the life of the common citizen.The origins of Ecuadorian literature go back to the ancestral narratives that were passed down from generation to generation.
العربية; Asturianu; Aymar aru; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Cymraeg; Español; Esperanto; Euskara; فارسی; Français; Frysk
Matilde Hidalgo Navarro de Procel (September 29, 1889, in Loja, Ecuador [1] – February 20, 1974, in Guayaquil, Ecuador) was an Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist.. Hidalgo was the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and also the first to receive a Doctorate in Medi
Trinkets and beads.Documentary, Ecuador/USA 1996, 52 minutes; Director: Chris Walker; Producer: Tony Avirgan.. “Chris Walker and Tony Avirgan’s films tells the tragi-comic story of the unlikely links between Maxus – a Texas-based oil company – the 79-year-old Wycliffe Bible Translators missionary Rachel Saint, and the Huaorani people of the Ecuadorian Orient, the most fiercely isolated ...