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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Premio Municipal de Literatura "Luis José de Tejada"
- An atlas of 2-dimensional echocardiography
- Atlas of Two Dimensional Echocardiography
- Filamentos
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Key facts
- Vice president
- Alejandro Serrano
- Preceded by
- Lucio Gutiérrez
- Succeeded by
- Rafael Correa
- President
- Lucio Gutiérrez
- Born
- Luis Alfredo Palacio González , ( 1939-01-22 ) 22 January 1939, Guayaquil , Ecuador
- Died
- 22 May 2025 (2025-05-22) (aged 86), Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Party
- Independent
- Spouse
- María Beatriz Paret
- Parent
- Alfredo Palacio Moreno (father)
- Alma mater
- Case Western Reserve University
- Profession
- Physician
- Field
- Cardiology
- Institutions
- University of Guayaquil
- Awards
- Order of the Sun of Peru (Grand Cross)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alfredo
- Family name
- Palacio
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ecuador
- Place of birth
- Guayaquil
- Place of death
- Guayaquil
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- President of Ecuador
- Employer
- Sixto Durán-Ballén
- Political party
- independent politician
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Alfredo Palacio Presidente de Ecuador.jpg
- Political ideology
- social democracy
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- date of birth
- 1939-01-22
- Commons category
- Alfredo Palacio
- birth name
- Luis Alfredo Palacio González
- name in native language
- Alfredo Palacio
- P10632
- Alfredo Palacio
- date of death
- 2025-05-22
- second family name in Spanish name
- González
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Encyclopedic overview
Luis Alfredo Palacio González (22 January 1939 – 22 May 2025) was an Ecuadorian cardiologist and politician who was the 44th president of Ecuador from 2005 to 2007. He had been the 44th vice president under President Lucio Gutiérrez, until he was appointed to the presidency when the Ecuadorian Congress removed Gutiérrez from power following a week of growing unrest with his government. He previously served as Minister of Health between 1994 and 1996.
Early life and medical career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alfredo Palacio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.