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Juan José Flores
Courtesy Prints and Photographs Divisions, Library of Congress

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Gabriel García Moreno
Courtesy Prints and Photographs Divisions, Library of Congress

Before the year 1830 drew to a close, both Marshal Sucre and Simón Bolívar would be dead the former, murdered (on orders from a jealous General Flores, according to some historians), and the latter, from tuberculosis. Heartbroken at the dissolution of Gran Colombia, Bolívar is quoted as saying shortly before his death, "America is ungovernable. Those who have served the revolution have plowed the sea." These words would seem prophetic during the chaotic first thirty years in the life of the Republic of Ecuador.

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