1. ECUADOR 1985-1960 INTEGRANTS: VANESSA JARAMILLO JODIE NARVÁEZ STEVEN VELASTEGUÍ DANIEL ACOSTA MA. JOSÉ MEDINA

2.  In the international context had reached the stage of monopoly capitalism and imperialism.  Then territorial division and the international trade division was fierce competition for cornering investments in production and services, primarily railways, it brought changes in international politics. Not disappeared, of course, acts of the former colonial intervention, but predominated the existence of international block and cut empires again.  United States began an aggressive policy aimed at consolidating Panamerican a new sphere of influence in the continent intervened in Cuba's independence from Spain and although he failed to keep in colonial conditions, which did succeed in Puerto Rico.

3.  In various ways the Latin American countries consolidated their insertion in the world market.  Its tropical products, grains and minerals, in some cases came to occupy the first place in the international arena, the area was important subcontinenete investment in mines, railways, transport and communication was received more investment was Argentina and Brazil.  Relations between the Latin American countries, however were limited, even replacing regional territorial disputes and misgivings.  The affectation of the groups linked to external trade and the production of export commodities in Latin America

4. During this period of time the Liberal Revolution had started in Ecuador. 1 400 00 people at 1900 3 202 757 people at 1950. The faster increase was at the coast because of the migration. Women began to work out of their houses, they began to sustent the hearth too. Matilde Hidalgo was the first doctor of Ecuador at this time. “Machismo” was generalized in whites and half-breeds. It was an estability time. ECUADORIAN SOCIETY Growers «agricultores» Craftman «artesanos»

5. ECONOMY Predominance of the bourgeoisie. It started the “Boom Bananero” at 1940 and ended at 1960. The Liberal Revolution implanted the “Estado laico”, the church and the state were separated, the politic direction and the public administration were modernized, and the social bases of the nation was extended. In the end of the XIX century and in the begining of the 20th century, Ecuador became the first producer of cacao in the world. We have lack Information of economy at the higland, but we know that the

6. STATE AND POLITICS THE SECULAR STATE Liberalism brought a change of political regime. The implantation of the secular state was split with the church and strengthening of central authority. Consolidated the principle of authority, the result was the representation of citizens equal before the law and it could expand the space of the political scene as public versus private. The statement of freedom of conscience, of religion and press, abolished the ideological monopoly of the clergy and widened the space of "public opinion" the rule was secular ideological axis of debate for over half a century.

7. STATE AND POLITICS POLITICAL STRUGGLE The liberal revolution defined liberal and conservative tendencies. The army had a violent interference for obtaining power and the elections, when the government imposed its candidates with fraud. “El partido liberal” was a heterogeneous alliance that expressed the interests of the bourgeoisie, with less weight of landowners, military leaders, intellectuals and popular groups, all articulated by the state Conservative Catholic terms identified in the political struggle assumed as “cruzada religiosa”

8. CULTURE FREEDOM AND TRANSFORMATION: The challenge of the traditional liberal society was seen by them as a cross of progress and civilization a feat of freedom of conscience oppressed clericalism. Its ideological struggle sometimes had to be in the theological field and committed several generations of writers like himself Alfaro Abelardo Moncayo, the most lucid ideologue executor of transformation, and Jose Peralta known writer. CULTURE AND NATION: The establishment of a secular state with the triumph of liberalism impact not only in politics but also in the ideas of art, culture, the concept of nation. The implementation of secularism mean a definite step in the establishment of a secular culture that took shape with non dogmatic. The violence of liberal reforms and the resistance of the clergy provoked a conflict that divided the country for decades. The religious sentiment the oyalty to Catholicism are vital elements of identity that far from disappearing, remained rooted in large sections of the people. EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE 20 th CENTURY Liberal reforms impacted on the lives of the Ecuadorian family. The establishment of the ”Registro Civil”, civil marriage and divorce, and thus opened the door to several changes.