Ecuatorian-chilean friendship on the path of the president Luis Cordero memories of the independence's first centennial

Abstract

In 1910, the former President of Ecuador, Luis Cordero (1892-1895), travels to Chile to represent his country in the celebrations of the First Centenary of the southern country's Independence. It was not the first occasion that his name had been bound to Chile. A stormy polemic, in the context of the fight for the political power that would end in the Liberal Revolution of 1895 and Eloy Alfaro's government, had attributed him the call "sale of the Ecuadorian flag" to the Chilean government, being generated a rough conflict that would lead to Cordero's renouncement in 1895. Eloy Alfaro, now President of Ecuador, intends to Luis Cordero to assume the quality of Plenipotentiary Minister from the Ecuador and this way to travel to Chile with the purpose of participating in the friend government's celebrations.