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Constituye, en fin, un ensayo sociológico, de libre interpretación histórica y perfectamente documentado, que puede servir de clave para la comprensión de uno de los capítulos importantes de la Historia de América y de una de sus realidades más dramáticas, paradójicas y fecundas.
Leopoldo Benites Vinueza fue un diplomático ecuatoriano quien se desempeñó como embajador de Ecuador ante una serie de países. Llegó a ser el vigésimo octavo presidente de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en 1973 y además fue representante permanente de Ecuador ante la ONU desde octubre de 1960.1 Benites también se desempeñó como profesor y obtuvo un doctorado honoris causa de la Universidad de Montevideo en Uruguay.
Leopoldo Benites was the 28th President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973. He had been the permanent representative of Ecuador since October 1960. (...)Leopoldo Benites Vinueza was born in Guayaquil in Ecuador on 17 October 1905. His father was a physician. He attended university in his home town where he obtained a degree in social and political science.[1][2] Benites married aged 20 to Margot Sierra.[3] He was a diplomat who served as the Ecuadorean ambassador to a number of countries. Benites served as a Professor and earned an honorary doctorate from the University of Montevideo in Uruguay.[1] He worked as a journalist, a role in which he later said he was against dictatorship. In the 1930s he spent eight months in jail. (…) Benites published short stories and poems as well as longer studies of the Ecuadoran hero Eugenio Espejo[4] and Francisco de Orellana,[1] the Spanish conquistador who travelled the length of the River Amazon and founded Benites' home city.
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