Gonzalo Segundo Córdova y Rivera (b. 1863, d. 1928) was President of Ecuador from 1924-1925. List of Heads of State of Ecuador (Dates in italics indicate 'de facto' continuation of office Rival governments in rebellion For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Ecuador topics. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Like his immediate predecessors in the Liberal Party, he was considered to be a pawn of "La Argolla" ("the ring"), a plutocracy of coastal agricultural and banking interests whose linchpin was the Commercial and Agricultural Bank of Guayaquil led by Francisco Urbina Jado. Guayaquil (waʝaˈkil officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest and the most populous City in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main port
Popular unrest, together with an ongoing economic crisis and a sickly president, laid the background for a bloodless coup d'état against Córdova in July 1925. Unlike previous coups in Ecuador, the 1925 coup was in the name of a collective grouping, the League of Young Officers, rather than a particular caudillo.
| Preceded by José Luis Tamayo |
President of Ecuador 1924-1925 |
Succeeded by Luis Telmo Paz |
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