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The Supreme Council of Government was a military junta that governed Ecuador from 1976 to 1979, being considered the last military dictatorship that governed the country. The junta was headed by the military Alfredo Poveda (representing the naval force), Guillermo Durán Arcentales (representing the land force) and Luis Leoro Franco (representing the air force).
History
By 1976, the government of the then dictator of Ecuador Guillermo Rodríguez Lara had been extremely weakened due to the attempted coup that General Raúl González Alvear had tried to do in 1975, which added to his low popularity and internal pressures, ended up generating that He left the presidency in 1976, handing over his power to the new military junta in a peaceful and uncomplicated manner.
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