Guillermo Lasso was born on 16 November 1955 in Guayaquil. An Ecuadorian banker and politician, Lasso became a prominent businessman as the head of Banco de Guayaquil and was minister of the economy briefly in 1999. He founded the conservative CREO movement and ran for president in 2013 and 2017 before winning the 2021 election against Andrés Arauz, taking office in May. His term saw a campaign of mass vaccination against Covid-19 and a rise in violent crime linked to drug trafficking. Facing an impeachment process in the National Assembly, in May 2023 he used a constitutional mechanism, called muerte cruzada, to dissolve the assembly and call early elections, in which he did not run.
Before and after
- 28 October 1955Birth of Bill Gates
- from 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975Vietnam War
- 11 November 1955Birth of Friedrich Merz
- 13 November 1955Birth of Whoopi Goldberg
- 16 November 1955Birth of Guillermo Lasso
- from 1 December 1955 to 20 December 1956Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
- 28 December 1955Birth of Liu Xiaobo
- 1956Founding of United Nations peacekeeping
- 1956Premiere of Eurovision Song Contest
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The era
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