The former assemblyman represented the migrant community of Latin America. In 1978 he moved to Venezuela.
Eduardo Alfonso Zambrano Cabanilla, former Assemblyman of Alianza PAIS who represented migrants from Latin America in 2007, during the Constituent Assembly, died of the coronavirus.
Zambrano Cabanilla was born on May 10, 1951 in Machala, El Oro province, he was married to Teresa Valle Peñafiel with whom he had three children: Sandra, a fashion designer; Eduardo, economist; and Cristhian, Doctor of Law.
In social networks, his son Eduardo Mauricio Zambrano Valle, who serves as an assembly member for Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa and is part of the Commission for Economic, Productive and Microenterprise Development, on behalf of his family, communicated about the death of his father, from whom he learned politics.
Zambrano Cabanilla was a public accountant, he studied Administration at the University of Machala and Law at the University of Guayaquil.
Since he was a student, he was linked to the student struggle. In 1969, together with his colleagues, he achieved the first University of the province of El Oro, the Technical University of Machala and later, he was a director in that higher education center.
He taught as a teacher of secondary education in his hometown and emigrated in July 1978 to Caracas, Venezuela, where he settled and became a leader of the migrant community.
He worked as Executive Director of the Center for Research and Social Promotion. He was an independent consultant, founder and director of the Venezuelan-Ecuadorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
In 2006, he served as General Coordinator of the PAIS Alliance Movement in Venezuela and representative of the electoral campaign of the then presidential candidate Rafael Correa.
Among his publications are: “Brindo por Ecuador”; “An Absent People – Forced to Emigrate”, as well as several articles on migration, social movements and citizen participation.
His last participation in an electoral contest was at the beginning of 2019 as a candidate for the Prefecture of El Oro for the political movement Compromiso Social, list 5, once Alianza PAIS was divided.
The Citizen Revolution led by former president Rafael Correa also expressed its condolences.
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