Desmitificando la "venta de la bandera": Los ocultos engranages de la traición
This essay is a summary of a new research regarding the Sale of the Flag, a watershed event in the history of Ecuador. This international scandal involved the assistance provided by Ecuadorian politicians and bureaucrats to facilitate the illegal sale of a warship, the Esmeralda by Chile to Japan, i...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Central del Ecuador |
| Repositorio: | Revista Anales |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistadigital.uce.edu.ec:article/1297 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/anales/article/view/1297 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ecuador Venta de la bandera Crucero Esmeralda Charles Ranlett Flint José María Plácido Caamaño Fidel George Pierra Japón Argolla sale of the flag Cruiser Esmeralda |
| Sumario: | This essay is a summary of a new research regarding the Sale of the Flag, a watershed event in the history of Ecuador. This international scandal involved the assistance provided by Ecuadorian politicians and bureaucrats to facilitate the illegal sale of a warship, the Esmeralda by Chile to Japan, in the middle of the First Sino-Japanese war. The affair caused the fall of the government of the Luis Cordero and allowed the long delayed of Eloy Alfaro to the power. Despite its obvious importance, the episode has not been examined in detail. This article attempts to highlight the deep and unexplored connections between three key characters of the affair: José María Plácido Caamaño, ex president of the Republic and head of the corrupt political cartel known as the Argolla, Charles Ranlett Flint, the well-known American Industrialist and arms dealer, and Fidel George Pierra Urgellés, a Cuban merchant and agent for Argolla and Flint as well. |
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