Correa ecuador biography of donald
He was first voted into office based on his promise of reforms to benefit the poor. Before becoming president, he had been Finance Minister for four months in 2005, and an academic before that.
Correa was born to a lower-middle-class family in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, in April 1963. He had a difficult upbringing, and his family struggled financially. His father was sentenced to a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence when he was caught smuggling cocaine into the United States. After finishing school, Correa was awarded a scholarship to study at Guayaquil’s University, where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1987.
He spent some time teaching indigenous children, trying to improve literacy rates, and subsequently learned the indigenous language, Quichua. He went on to obtain a master's degree at Belgium’s Catholic University of Louvain, where he met his future wife. He returned to Ecuador in 1991 and became a director at the Ministry o
Correa was born to a lower-middle-class family in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, in April 1963. He had a difficult upbringing, and his family struggled financially. His father was sentenced to a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence when he was caught smuggling cocaine into the United States. After finishing school, Correa was awarded a scholarship to study at Guayaquil’s University, where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1987.
He spent some time teaching indigenous children, trying to improve literacy rates, and subsequently learned the indigenous language, Quichua. He went on to obtain a master's degree at Belgium’s Catholic University of Louvain, where he met his future wife. He returned to Ecuador in 1991 and became a director at the Ministry o