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    Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt (born 29 July 1949) is an Ecuadorian lawyer, academic and former politician. He was the forty-first president of Ecuador from 10...
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    country's electorate. Lasso served as Superminister of Economy during the Jamil Mahuad presidency briefly in 1999. He previously served as Governor of Guayas...
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  • sprinter Jamil Jean-Jacques, Haitian soccer player Jamil al-Midfai, Iraqi politician Jamil Mahuad, former president of Ecuador (1998–2000) Jamil Majdalawi...
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  • crisis. Severe inflation and devaluation of the sucre led to President Jamil Mahuad announcing on January 9, 2000 that the U.S. dollar would be adopted as...
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    previously was the Secretary of Communication during the government of Jamil Mahuad, from 1998 to 2000. He was also Ecuador's ambassador to Chile (from 2022...
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    15 January 2003. Previously he served as the vice president during Jamil Mahuad's government from 1998 until 2000. From 1983 until 1984, he also was the...
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    this time, Durán Ballén's three elected successors, Abdalá Bucaram, Jamil Mahuad and Lucio Gutiérrez, were deposed in popular revolts, followed by military...
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    questioned the government's conduct and pointedly refused to shake Pres. Jamil Mahuad Witt's hand during a public ceremony in December. Gutierrez was born...
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  • President of Bolivia Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, former President of Ecuador Jamil Mahuad Witt (MPA '89), former President of Costa Rica José María Figueres Olsen...
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    Carville helped to craft a successful strategy to elect Jamil Mahuad Witt as President of Ecuador. Mahuad, an Ecuadorian-born attorney, earned a Master of Public...
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    Fujimori–Mahuad Treaty (Spanish: Tratado Fujimori–Mahuad), is an international treaty signed in Brasilia by the then President of Ecuador, Jamil Mahuad and...
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  • coup d'état took place on 21 January 2000 and resulted in President Jamil Mahuad being deposed, and replaced by Vice President Gustavo Noboa. The coup...
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    when the Brasilia Presidential Act was signed between then presidents Jamil Mahuad and Alberto Fujimori. The border was closed from 2020 to early 2022 due...
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    the presidential elections on 12 July. The result was a victory for Jamil Mahuad of the Popular Democracy (DP) party, who won the run-off with 51.2% of...
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    Cevallos Sixto Durán Ballén Abdalá Bucaram Rosalía Arteaga Fabián Alarcón Jamil Mahuad Gustavo Noboa Lucio Gutiérrez Alfredo Palacio Rafael Correa Lenín Moreno...
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    to 2005, 3 constitutional presidents were overthrown (Abdalá Bucaram, Jamil Mahuad and Lucio Gutiérrez). The left-wing populist government of Rafael Correa...
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    leaders also participated in the 2000 coup d'état that deposed president Jamil Mahuad. CONAIE's political agenda includes the strengthening of a positive Indigenous...
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  • innocent of the charges leveled against her in May 1998. In August 1998, Jamil Mahuad appointed Armijos Minister of the Interior, making her the first woman...
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  • negotiating the Iran hostage crisis to his advisory role in helping Jamil Mahuad, President of Ecuador (1998–2000), resolve a long-standing international...
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  • sculptor Ben Lerner, writer John Lithgow, actor Dolph Lundgren, actor Jamil Mahuad, President of Ecuador from 1998 to 2000 John Atta Mills, legal scholar...
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  • Ecuador in 1993, and abolished with dollarization in the presidency of Jamil Mahuad on January 9, 2000. It was meant to help deal with the high levels of...
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  • Portillo jailed in US". BBC News. May 22, 2014. "Ex-Ecuadorian president Jamil Mahuad jailed for 12 years". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved May 30, 2014...
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    that led to the Brasilia Presidential Act in 1998. In the same year, Jamil Mahuad, the new president of Ecuador, appointed Baki the Ecuadorian Ambassador...
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  • January 9, President Jamil Mahuad announced that the US dollar would be adopted as Ecuador's official currency. Twelve days later, Mahuad was deposed by a...
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    Temer (Brazil), Julio Teodoro Salem, Abdalá Bucaram, Alberto Dahik, Jamil Mahuad (all in Ecuador), Jacobo Majluta Azar, Luis Abinader (Dominican Republic)...
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    Borja Cevallos (1991) President Sixto Durán Ballén (1993) President Jamil Mahuad (1999) President Lucio Gutiérrez (2004) President Alfredo Palacio (2006)...
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    a trade unionist until 1999, when he was fired by the government of Jamil Mahuad. Villavicencio began his journalism career with El Universo in Guayaquil...
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    at 25,000 sucre per USD on January 7, 2000. On January 9, President Jamil Mahuad announced that the US dollar was to be adopted as Ecuador's official...
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    Jamil Mahuad (1,341,089 votes, 34.92% of valid ballots) and both battled in a runoff held on July 12. Noboa lost the runoff by 102,519 votes. Mahuad won...
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    Ecuador experienced a banking crisis and the government of President Jamil Mahuad replaced the Ecuadorean sucre currency with the U.S. dollar. Correa was...
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