Lenin Boltaire Moreno Garces is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador, from 2017 to 2021.
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34 Facts About Lenin Moreno
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Lenin Moreno was nominated as the candidate for Correa's PAIS Alliance, a social democratic political party, in the 2017 presidential election and won a narrow victory in Ecuador's second round of voting on 2 April 2017.
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However, after his election Lenin Moreno drastically shifted his political stance, distancing himself from Correa's leftist legacy in both domestic and foreign policy.
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Lenin Moreno was expelled from PAIS Alliance in March 2021 after the party's crushing defeat in the 2021 elections.
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Lenin Moreno was shot in a 1998 robbery attempt and thereafter has used a wheelchair.
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Lenin Moreno was born into a middle-class family in Nuevo Rocafuerte, a small town in the Ecuadorian Amazon, near the Peruvian border.
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Lenin Moreno's father, Servio Tulio Moreno, was a teacher who promoted bilingual education and integrated schools for indigenous children and mestizo children and who later became a senator.
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Lenin Moreno's parents named him after men they admired; his father liked Vladimir Lenin and his mother Voltaire, although an error in the civil registration turned his middle name into Boltaire.
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Lenin Moreno moved to Quito with his family when he was three years old.
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Lenin Moreno began his career in 1976 as the director of the Continental Professional Training Center.
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Lenin Moreno went on to become Director of OMC Publigerencia Andina, sales manager of Satho and marketing manager of Zitro, all located in Ecuador.
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Lenin Moreno has earned numerous awards while serving as vice president of Ecuador: the "Fray Jodoco Ricke" Award; the Order of the Sun of Peru in the rank of Grand Cross; and the Order of Merit to the Democracy, presented by the governments of Peru, Guatemala and Colombia, respectively.
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Lenin Moreno was recognized unanimously by the Council of the Metropolitan District of Quito with the order of Gran Collar Sebastian Benalcazar.
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Lenin Moreno earned a Honoris Causa Masters, from the Business School, Spain, on 25 November 2011.
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Lenin Moreno was appointed as Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in December 2013.
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Lenin Moreno increased the budget for disabled people more than fifty-fold.
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Lenin Moreno founded the Manuela Espejo Solidarity Mission for the Disabled, which offers rehab, technical help, and psychological support to thousands of disabled Ecuadorians.
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Lenin Moreno left the vice presidency on 24 May 2013 and was succeeded by Jorge Glas.
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Lenin Moreno was the first vice president to complete his term since 1992.
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Lenin Moreno was nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize by Celso Maldonado, Vice President of the People with Disabilities Commission of the Ecuadorian National Assembly.
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On 1 October 2016, Lenin Moreno was nominated as a candidate for the 2017 presidential election at the conference of Alianza Pais.
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Later in 2018, through a referendum, Lenin Moreno reversed several key pieces of legislation passed by the Correa administration that targeted wealthy individuals and banks.
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Lenin Moreno reversed a previous referendum allowing indefinite re-election, and established the Consejo de Participacion Ciudadana y Control Social Transitorio, which has supra-constitutional powers, to "evaluate control authorities and judges", with the aim of removing what remains of Correa's influence.
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Since the creation of CPCCS-T, Lenin Moreno has used it to oust and replace government officials, provincial judges, the judicial council, and the National Electoral Council.
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Lenin Moreno's government adopted a conservative policy: reduction of public spending, trade liberalization, and flexibility of the labour code.
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Lenin Moreno's government supported plans for oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon region.
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In June 2019, Lenin Moreno's government faced protests from environmentalist, indigenous and self-described patriotic groups after he permitted the US military to use the airbase on Galapagos Islands.
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On 2 October 2019, Lenin Moreno declared the abolishment of fuel subsidies, which in turn triggered the 2019 Ecuadorian protests.
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Lenin Moreno talked with Manafort about removing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and his extradition to the United States.
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In January 2019, Lenin Moreno supported Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido's claim to the Presidency of Venezuela, thus moving Ecuador away from its previous support of Nicolas Maduro.
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Lenin Moreno maintained a majority approval rating throughout his term as vice president.
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Lenin Moreno did not run again for re-election in the 2021 Ecuadorian general election.
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