Jaime Hurtado

One of the suspected assassins, Christian Steven Ponce, had fled Ecuador shortly after being arrested, and was caught in upstate New York in February 2007 when he was driving a car while not wearing a seat belt.

In 1984 participates like candidate for the Presidency of the Republic , in binomial with Alfonso Yánez. Then between 1990 and 1994 , National Director of MPD. In 1998 he returned to the National Congress, his parliamentary activity was characterized by his denunciations of acts of corruption and the defense of the interests of the working class.

In 1966 , he entered the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE), arriving at the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of PCMLE. participated in the founding of the MPD in 1978 , being first candidate to vice-president in a binomial to which he was not allowed to participate in the elections of 1978 , to the TSE not to recognize the legal personage of the MPD, soon after obtaining the MPD its recognition would be elected in 1979 national deputy after the return to the democracy.

Jaime Ricaurte Hurtado González (7 February 1937 – 17 February 1999) was an Ecuadorian politician of African descent aligned with the Democratic People's Movement (MPD), a deputy in the Ecuadorian parliament, and at the time of his death was standing for election to the Ecuadorian presidency.

Born in the abandoned parish of Malimpia in Quinindé, a canton of Esmeraldas, one of the many forgotten areas of the country. It was a February 7, 1937, his parents were Esteban Hurtado and Pastora Gonzalez, who were illiterate.