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With the oil boom fading, Ecuador returned
to democracy in 1979, under the first Ecuadorian president of
the 1979 constitution, Jaime Roldos Aguilera who, with his
Popular Forces' Concentration (CFP) party, won a decisive
victory against Sixto Duran Ballen of the Social Christian
Party (PSC). After a leadership disagreement with Asaad
Bucaram, the then leader of the CFP, Roldos left the
above-mentioned party to found his own along with his wife. |
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This Roldos-founded party, called "People, Change and
Democracy" (PCD), would become an unimportant third-runner in
Ecuadorian politics when Abdala Bucaram Ortiz's
Guayaquil-based Ecuadorian Roldosista Party (PRE) was founded
in 1982. During the year 1981, the country experienced another
episode (named the Ecuador-Peru conflict of 1981, and also Paquisha, after a territory in the surrounding area) of the
recurring conflicts it has had throughout its history with the
republic of Peru. By the end of the year 1981, Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado
Larrea of the Popular Democracy (DP) party |
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succeeded Roldos
after Roldos's airplane crashed over the Ecuadorian
section of the Amazonian jungles, instantly killing him. |
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