Dimensión regional de la Revolución Liberal ecuatoriana

Abstract

This article focuses on the study of the historical process of liberal transformation led by Eloy Alfaro, after the pronouncement of Guayaquil in 1895, against the status quo of a regionalism that articulated the territorial space, economic, social and political life. From a historiographic analysis, this work highlights the contribution of the liberal regime towards a new role for the Armed Forces, the impulse to secularization and the development of welfare with a clear regional differentiation, the support to workers' organizations, its impact on the new regionalist conception and the sharpening between liberals and conservatives that laid the foundations for the emergence of modern Ecuadorian political parties.