Alfredo Vera Arrata

During his childhood he contagioned poliomyelitis and as a consequence of his illness he was unable to do sports and was forced to wear special shoes.

Alfredo Vera attended in his home city to the then prestigious High School Colegio Nacional Aguirre Abad.

Since 1976 he works at the Guayasamin Foundation as a leading executive due to his family ties to Oswaldo Guayasamín (Vera Arrata is married to his daughter Saskia).

He brought forward the materialisation of the La Capilla del Hombre ("The Chapel of Man") and furthermore, the development of painture in Ecuador.

In addition, he was also a leader of the Movimiento Unión Revolucionaria de Juventudes Ecuatorianas, a leftwing revolucionary student association.