Carlos Cueva Tamariz

Carlos Cueva Tamariz (November 5, 1898 – April 8, 1991) was an Ecuadorian politician, lawyer and university professor.

His father was a journalist and politician that later worked at the Azuay Province's Government and at the City Hall of Cuenca.

1904 the family returned to Cuenca and Cueva was educated at the catholic elementary school "San José de los HH.CC."

Cueva was appointed on 1917, while still being a college student, as a teacher at the elementary school "Luis Cordero".

Three years later he was elected as a Congressman for the fourth time after he rejected being proposed as President of Ecuador for the Socialist Party.

He was Secretary of Education under President Galo Plaza Lasso in 1951 and 1964 he was a member of the Ecuadorian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.

1966 he won a sit at the elections for the Constitutional Convention of 1966 and a year later he was appointed as Ambassador of Ecuador at the United Nations.