Luis Ramón Félix López (Calceta

Calceta

Calceta is a town in the Manabí province of Ecuador.Situated to banks of the river Carrizal, and surrounded by the valley of the same name, Calceta is in the actuality a center of trade and services for the zone centre north of Manabí. It has a dozen of high schools and more of twenty schools...

, August 25, 1932 - Guayaquil

Guayaquil

Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...

, December 17, 2008) was a medical, political and recognized Ecuadorian writer who during his lifetime he held senior positions in public life of their country.

Early Life

Luis Felix Lopez was the eldest of 13 children, sons of Quinche Felix Rezabala y Jacinta Maria Lopez Loor.

He received his basic education from the teacher Santa Rezabala, who was prepared him to finish primary school. At the age 12 he entered in the Eloy Alfaro College in Bahía de Caráquez

Bahía de Caráquez

La Villa de San Antonio de Caráquez, known simply as Bahía de Caráquez or Bahía, is a coastal city in the Ecuadorian province of Manabí. The city is located on a sandy peninsula on the country's western coast at the mouth of the Río Chone...

. In 1947 he traveled to Quito, to enter the College "San Gabriel" of the Jesuits, as an intern ,where he graduated from high school.

Already his youth, denoted his passion for poetry and writing small poems that reads to the class.

Profession

He studied medicine at the Universidad Central del Ecuador. In 1956, he entered as an intern at IESS Hospital, where he met his future wife, Sara Beatriz Grijalva.

As a physician, studied two specialties in the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico, UNAM, gastroenterology and endoscopy. In the Aztec country was director of the endoscopy service of the Netzahualcóyotl General Hospital and Medical Director of several magazines and scientific publications.

Political Career

Luis Felix Lopez enters political life, while still a college student, supporting the candidacy of Carlos Guevara Moreno, founder of the Concentration of Popular Forces party, CFP. In 1960, despite the new triumph of José María Velasco Ibarra

José María Velasco Ibarra

José María Velasco Ibarra was an Ecuadorian political figure. He served as the president of Ecuador from 1934–1935, 1944–1947, 1952–1956, 1960–1961, and 1968-1972. He only served one of those terms without being ousted by the army, from 1952-1956.-Early life and career:Velasco Ibarra was born on...

 in the presidential elections, Luis Felix Lopez became a deputy to run in third place in the CFP list.

In 1962 he was reelected as a legislator with Jose Hanna Musse, Eliecer Pérez Jurado y Jaime Aspiazu Seminario. Felix is appointed Deputy Minister for State Representative to the Board of Special Economic Zones, and in these functions, involved in a political trial, proposed to the then Vice President, Reinaldo Varea Donoso, Minister of Defense and the General Commander Armed Forces for the purchase of so-called "junk" weapons obsolete and overpriced.

The First Military Joint took power, deposing Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy

Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy

Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy served as Vice President of Ecuador and due to the ousting of President José María Velasco Ibarra, became President of Ecuador from 7 November 1961 to 11 July 1963....

 of the Presidency in 1963 and dissolved parliament. In these circumstances, Luis Felix Lopez is named Supreme Director of the CFP.

For 1966 returned to live in his home province of Manabi, settling on El Carmen, who was in the middle of a border problem between the provinces of Manabi and Pichincha. Luis fought tirelessly and achieved a declaration to El Carmen

El Carmen

-Colombia:*El Carmen, Santander a municipality in the Santander Department*El Carmen de Atrato, a municipality in the Chocó Department*El Carmen, Norte de Santander, a municipality in the Norte de Santander Department...

, canton and jurisdiction of the province of Manabi and became the first mayor of the canton to win elections.

In 1968, he became Managing Director of the Consortium of Municipalities of Manabi, who was in charge of the construction of highways and roads in this province. He was then appointed Director of the defunct Manabi Rehabilitation Center (CRM) and in 1970 he was appointed governor of the province of Manabi. In the exercise of his office, the dam "Poza Honda," was built, Regional Water System's Drinking Estancilla, Tosagua and began the study of the Carrizal River basin, where he later built the dam "La Esperanza" .

With the return to democracy in the 1980s, he entered as an active element of the political party Democratic Left, which would lead in 1988 to Rodrigo Borja to the Presidency of the Republic. During this government, Luis Felix Lopez was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Responsible Government on several occasions.

During his tenure in the portfolio of State, will play part in the historic process in which the group "Alfaro Vive Carajo!" Decides to give up their weapons, for insertion into civil society.

Literary works

During different periods of his life, Luis Felix Lopez is writing literary works that were worthy of national and international recognition:

• "Designs" (1973), Novel finalist of the "International Prize for the Novel, Mexico 1973."

• "Endless Echo" (1977), Poetry

• "The Sparrow Sings in the Darkness" (1980), finalist Storybook "Guayaquil Group Award"

• "The Talisman" (1994), Story Book.

• "Night Herd" (1996), Novel winner of "Premio Joaquin Gallegos Lara," the Metropolitan District of Quito.

• "Takes Time to Die" (1998), Novel winner of the "National Prize for Literature" of the House of Culture in Guayas

• "The Smell of Virtues" (2001), Novel.

His pass in the culture

During the final stage of his life, assumed the presidency of the House of Ecuadorian Culture

Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana

La Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana is a cultural organization founded by Benjamín Carrión on August 9, 1944, during the presidency of Dr Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. It was created to stimulate, to direct and to coordinate the development of an authentic national culture. It maintains several...

, Core Guayas, in 2003, beginning a process of reconstruction and modernization of the institution, visible both in its physical structure, as in the multiple cultural activities that were developed and in rebuilding the museum. He was reelected in 2007.

External links

http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/12/19/1/1379/66BFE17A25CB4A0D951F9F1EAD12DF26.html

http://grupobusetadepapel.blogspot.com/2008/12/luis-flix-lpez-1932-2008.html

http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/tomos/tomo19/f1.htm

http://www3.wabash.edu/ecuador/lit_felix.html

http://www.diario-expreso.com/ediciones/2010/09/10/opinión/columnas/luis-felix-lopez/

http://www.explored.com.ec/noticias-ecuador/luis-felix-lopez-nuevo-presidente-de-la-cce-g-148004-148004.html

http://www.eldiario.com.ec/noticias-manabi-ecuador/109201-el-paisaje-de-los-designios-de-luis-felix-lopez/

http://www.enteratecuador.com/frontEnd/main.php?idSeccion=10960

http://www.hipecuador.com/html/ups/persons/politics/rodrigo_borja.html

http://elcarmen-manabi.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html