Alfredo Baquerizo

Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (28 September 1859, in Guayaquil – 20 March 1951) was an Ecuadorian politician.

He served as Vice President of Ecuador of Leónidas Plaza and Lizardo García from 1903 to 1906[1] and as President of Ecuador three times in August – September 1912, September 1916[2] – August 1920 and October 1931 – August 1932.

He was a member of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party.

Moreno is noted for sanctioning the abolition of the agricultural practice of concertaje,[3] which was a system of contracted debt that held Indian hacienda laborers called conceirtos under threat of imprisonment.

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Statue of Moreno in Malecón