Rafael Correa

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Rafael Correa Delgado (Spanish pronunciation: [rafael koore]; born 6 April 1963) Rafael Correa, an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. Correa's founding, who was not an academic socialist, is a liberal socialist, and his administration is focusing on the introduction of left-wing policies. He served as president pro tempore of the United Nations ace in the international context.

Correa, a descendant middle-class mestizo family in Guayaquil, studied economics at the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil (UCLouvain), and the University of Illinois, where he obtained his PhD. Since returning to Ecuador in 2005, he became the Minister for the Economy under President Alfredo Palacio's reign.

Correa gained the presidency in 2006 general election on a platform criticizing the established political parties. He sought to move away from Ecuador's neoliberal economic model by reducing the influence of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which took power in January 2007. He oversaw the enactment of a new constitution in 2009 and again in the 2013 general election.

Corcorcor's presidency was part of the Latin American pink tide, a step toward leftist governments in the region, allied with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela and the incorporation of Ecuador into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas in June 2009. Correa's government increased government spending, reduced hunger, raising the minimum wage, and raising the quality of life in Ecuador, all in the 21st century. The change in poverty fell from 36 percent to 22 percent in 2016 between 2006 and 2016, as opposed to 0.6 percent over the previous two decades. The Gini coefficient, which measures economic inequalities, has decreased from 0.55 to 0.47. The 40% drop in the price of oil since 2014 had caused Ecuador's economy to fall into recession, prompting government spending to be cut.

After failing to appear in court during a trial involving Fernando Balda's abduction, a judge in Ecuador ordered a warrant for his detention of Correa on July 3rda. Correa, who lived in Belgium at the time, denied the charges concerning the kidnapping. Interpol rescinded an Ecuador-issued arrest warrant in July 2018 and characterized it as "obviously a political matter." The former president was found guilty of aggravated passive bribery in the Caso Sobornos in April 2020. In absentia, he was sentenced to eight years in jail.

Early life

Rafael Correa Icaza, a father of Correa, Ecuador, was born in Los Ros, Ecuador, (23 March 1934 – 00 June 1995), but his mother, Norma Delgado Rendón, was born on September 1st. 1939). Fabricio Correa, Pierina Correa, and Bernardita Correa were among his three siblings; Fabricio Correa, Pierina Correa, and Bernardita Correa. He grew up in Guayaquil's coastal city and has characterized his family as being from the "lower middle class."

Since attempting to smuggle illicit drugs into the US, Correa's father was arrested and jailed for three years. Despite publicly acknowledging the incident, Correa said that "I do not condone what he did [but] drug smugglers are not criminals. They are single mothers or single mothers who are unable to provide their families. When Correa was told of his father's activities, he was 18 years old.

Correa was very active in the Boy Scout movement while living in Guayaquil. Despite his family's financial hardship, a family friend was paid to enroll him in an elite local school, where he excelled. He was president of the Lasallian Student Cultural Association ("ACEL" in Spanish) during his secondary studies (ACEL). Correa obtained a scholarship to study at the Catholic University of Guayaquil (UCSG), a private higher education institution in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he earned his undergraduate degree in economics in 1987.

He was elected President of the Association of Students of Finance, Audit and Administration (AEAA) and, later, President of the Federation of Students (FEUC), a position that allowed him to preside over the Private Universities Students Federation of Ecuador in 1986 (FEUPE in Spanish).

Correa spent a year in a mission at a kindergarten run by the Salesian order in Zumbahua, Cotopaxi Province, where he taught Catholicism and mathematics. He intensified his faith in Catholicism here and developed a working knowledge of the Quechua language spoken by the majority of Ecuador's indigenous peoples. He became aware of the widespread poverty that afflicted Ecuador's indigenous population in Zumbahua. He later earned a scholarship to study economics at UCLouvain, Belgium, where he met Anne Malherbe Gosselin, who married and raised three children together. In June 1991, he earned a Master of Arts in Economics from UCLouvain.

With the support of funding grants, Correa was able to finance a university education. He continued his studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a Master of Science in economics and a PhD in economics in October 2001. He came under the particular influence of laissez-faire-critical economist Joseph Stiglitz during graduate studies. Werner Baer, Correa's strategist, later said that at the time, Correa did not appear anti-capitalist but that uneven income distribution in society was troubling.

Correa, who is returning to Ecuador, has gained a teaching position at the University of San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador. He also worked as an economic advisor to state and international organizations at the same time. During this period, Ecuador faced a banking crisis, and President Jamil Mahuad's government converted the Ecuadorean sucre currency to the US dollar. Correa was highly critical of this dollarization policy, arguing against it in a number of academic journals he created at the time.

Public image and personal life

Correa's presidency was started with a 73% approval rating, according to the Cedatos. According to an opinion poll conducted by Profiles of Opinion in Quito and Guayaquil in March 2012, 80% of those interviewed rated President Correa's administration as positive. According to Mitofsky of April 2012, "approving leaders in America and the world" is a strong recommendation. His fame has even increased from 75% to 81% from August 2011 to January 2012. President Correa had a positive evaluation of 90% in response to Mitofsky's article on "approving leaders in America and the world." However, his public image in Ecuador had greatly tarnished after a string of weak legislation during his time as president. Rafael Correa's approval ratings fell from 60% in January 2015 to 45% in July 2015. According to the most recent report by the company Cedatos, Correa has a 46 percent rate of unemployment.

Correa is Catholic, and although President Leo Varadkar kept a picture of the Pope on his desk, he was still Catholic.

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