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Lucio GutirrezLucio Edwin Gutirrez Borba (born March 23, 1957) is an Ecuadorian soldier and politician; he became President of Ecuador on January 15, 2003. Gutirrez was prominent in a short-lived military coup that overthrew President Jamil Mahuad Witt in 2000 following demonstrations in Quito by thousands of indigenous Ecuadorians protesting the Mahuad government's corruption and economic policies. Ordered to disperse the protestors, Gutirrez instead organized mobile kitchens to feed them and stood aside when they took over the national parliament building. Gutirrez then joined with two leaders of the protests to form a government of national salvation. That government was removed in short order by the commanders of the armed forces, who jailed Gutirrez for six months. Gutirrez ran for President in 2002 as the candidate of the January 21 Patriotic Society Party, named for the date of the unsuccessful 2000 coup, on a platform of fighting corruption and introducing populist economic reforms. He defeated lvaro Noboa in the second round with 55% of the popular vote. Gutirrez began alienating many of his supporters even before taking office, however, by taking inconsistent positions on whether he supported joining the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and lost much of his support by pursuing conservative economic policies as President. His former left-wing supporters joined with the conservative Social Christian Party in November 2004 in launching an effort to impeach him on charges of spending public funds in support of the candidates of his party in the most recent elections. That effort collapsed a week later when the Social Christian Party withdrew its support for the proceedings. In December 2004, his political party Sociedad Patriotica, together with PRIAN (Alvaro Noboa) and PRE (Abdala Bucaram), voted in Congress for the cancellation of the Supreme Court of Justice, even though current Ecuadorian Constitution gives autonomy to the Judicial System and does not authorize the Congress to interfere in the Judicial System, removing or nominating judges. Therefore, it is clear for the public opinion that Congress violated the Constitution. Judges were replaced by allies to PRE, PRIAN and PSP with the clear intention of bringing back former president Abdala Bucaram, accused of several acts of corruption during his presidency and currently auto-exiled in Panama. Gutirrez, Lucio Gutirrez, Lucio Gutirrez
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