Jaime Roldós Aguilera

Categories: Presidents of Ecuador | 1940 births | 1981 deaths | Politician stubs

Jaime Roldós Aguilera (b. November 5, 1940 in Guayaquil, Ecuador - d. May 24, 1981) was President of Ecuador 10 August 1979 to 24 May 1981. He was a reformer, and was threatened more than once by personal enemies. Roldos and his wife founded the People, Change and Democracy Party or Partido Pueblo, Cambio y Democracia in Spanish. He was President during a brief military encounter with Peru in 1981. He died in a plane crash later in 1981 near the peruvian border.

American businessman John Perkins, alleges in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, that Roldós was assassinated by American interests in Ecuadorian oil prospects. Roldós died just months before Panamanian head-of-state Omar Torrijos, in strikingly similar circumstances.