Francisco Yllescas Barreiro

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Francisco Yllescas Barreiro (born April 17, 1901 in Bahía de Caráquez, Manabí province ; † July 12, 1963 ) was an Ecuadorian diplomat .

Life

Francisco Yllescas Barreiro was the fourth of six children of a merchant from Guayaquil who owned a small finca in Manabí. When his father's fortune was lost in 1916, Francisco Yllescas Barreiro began to work and was able to support the family from 1919. He became a Bachillerato at the Colegio Vicente Rocafuerte and studied law and master's degree in social science at the Universidad de Guayaquil . In 1921 he became chairman of a student association and in 1927 received his doctorate.

He worked as a lawyer and entrepreneur. In 1928 he was a member of the constituent assembly ( Constitucionalismo ecuatoriano ). Francisco Yllescas Barreiro married María Mercedes Ycaza Pareja in Paris in 1933 , where she worked in the household of Coco Chanel . Her son is the journalist Francisco Yllescas Ycaza.

He initially commissioned the Anglo-Ecuadorian Oil Co. to produce oil on the Santa Elena Peninsula and founded Petrópolis Oil and Carolina Oil . In 1943 he was vice president of the Instituto Sudamericano del Petróleo , managing director of Petrópolis Oil Co., Carolina Oil Co. and Petrolera Ecuatoriana .

On January 10, 1946, the Ecuadorian delegation headed the first General Assembly of the United Nations in London . On December 20, 1947, he issued visas for Thor Heyerdahl and Herman Watzinger as ambassador to Washington, DC .

In 1952 he founded the Harinas del Ecuador with British funding , an industrial mill on the Río Guayas in Guayaquil with an annual production of 30,000 tons and founded the Panificadora Nacional , an industrial bakery . He propagated food sovereignty and initiated a campaign against flour and wheat imports .

He acquired the Edén and Olmedo cinemas and the Diario Ecuador daily newspaper in Quito, which his nephew Eduardo Borja Yllescas ran.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ABC , 1988/07/11, [1]
  2. ^ Presidente: Ingeniero Enrique Coloma Silva, ex-Director de Minas y Petróleo. Vice-Presidents: Doctor Francisco Yllescas Barreiro, Gerente de las Compañías Petrópolis Oil Co., Carolina Oil Co. y Petrolera Ecuatoriana.
  3. ^ Francisco Yllescas, Chairman of the delegation of Ecuador to the present session of the General Assembly, was born on April 17th, 1901, at Bahia de Caraquez in Ecuador. He obtained the degrees of Master of Social Sciences and Doctor ... according to: United Nations Dept. of Public Information, United Nations bulletin : Volume 1, 1946
  4. ↑ By 20 December the Ecuadorean ambassador to the USA, Dr Francisco Yllescas, had issued courtesy visas to Heyerdahl and Watzinger, and the vice-consul at the Ecuadorean Embassy, ​​Cristobal Montero, had written to the customs.
  5. ^ Catherine M Conaghan, Restructuring Domination: Industrialists and the State in Ecuador , p. 39
  6. ↑ it: Diario Expreso , 15.04.2010, un custodio de la memoria familiar
predecessor Office successor
Carlos Manuel Larrea Ecuadorian ambassador in Buenos Aires
1945 		Ángel Isaac Chiriboga Navarro
Galo Plaza Lasso Ecuadorian Ambassador to Washington DC
December 13, 1946 - December 31, 1947 		Agustín Dillon Valdez
personal data
SURNAME Yllescas Barreiro, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ecuadorian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Bahía de Caráquez, Manabí Province
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1963