Juan Fernando Cordero Cueva (born May 27, 1952) is an Ecuadorian politician and architect. He was the mayor of Cuenca between 1996 and 2005. He was also Member of the Ecuadorian Congress and President of the

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in 2008. Between 2009 and 2013 he was

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of the

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. From September 2014 to March 2016 he was Minister of National Defence. He is also publicly known as Corcho Cordero.

Career

Cordero was born 1952 in

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the son of Leonardo Cordero Vega and his wife, Beatriz Cueva Jaramillo. His maternal grandfather was the recognized politician Carlos Cueva Tamaríz. Cordero studied architecture at the University of Cuenca, of which he later served as

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in 1989–1991 and 1994–1996. He graduated 1975, absolved a post-gradual program in

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until 1977 and obtained later a

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in Urbanism at the

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in 2007. He has been a professor at his

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since 1977 and has been involved in international architectural organizations such as Sociedad Interamericana de Planificación. He was elected mayor of Cuenca in 1996 and was reelected for a second term in 2000. As such he won 2004 a prize for the best work as mayor in Ecuador among 22 participants. 2006 Cueva was elected member of the Ecuadorian Congress as the most voted candidate in the country and 2007 of the

. Cordero Cueva was later elected

of the

, and was appointed Minister of National Defense on September 26, 2014, a position he served through March 1, 2016. He succeeded

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, and was himself succeeded by

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. Cordero Cueva is married to Nelly Carvallo and has three children.

References

External links

Fernando Cordero at the Website of the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly

Official Website
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