[4] After his retirement from professional football at age 24, he began his political career by being elected to office, as an Assemblyman with 428,000 votes [5] in 2009 and in 2014 was re-elected with 500,000.

[7] On 2017 he ran for the presidency of the republic under the support of his political party Fuerza Ecuador (FE), founded by him,[8] he lost the election obtaining only 4.82% of the votes.

[6] He completed his high school education at the Moderna Sergio Perez Valdez College in Guayaquil.

[9] Internationally he played for teams such as Chacarita Junior (Argentina) and the Alliance of Montevideo in the Uruguayan second division.

[16] In 2001, he was selected for the national football team U-20 Ecuador, but only played the opening match of the South American championship.

[1] After that match against Venezuela ended in a 0–0 score manager José María Burbano resigned and Fabian Andrade took over as coach.

Bucaram left the party, saying that he wanted to pursue his master's degree, spend more time with his family, and support new leadership in Guayas.

[18] However, at the beginning of the first debate of the report on a series controversial amendments to the Constitution prepared by the Assembly, Bucaram announced his resignation under the argument that he was against the ultimately-approved changes promoted by the majority block of País Alliance.