Carlos Cueva Tamaríz

Carlos Cueva Tamariz ( November 5, 1898 – April 8, 1991) was an Ecuadorian politician, lawyer and university professor.

Carlos Cueva was born on November 5, 1898 the first son of Agustín Cueva Muñoz and his wife Domitila Tamariz Larrea in Cuenca. His father was a journalist and politician that later worked at the Azuay Province's Government and at the City Hall of Cuenca.

The family moved to Milagro when he was three, where his father worked as book keeper. 1904 the family returned to Cuenca and Cueva was educated at the catholic elementary school "San José de los HH.CC." Later he went to the "Colegio Seminario" High School until it closed on 1912. Finally, on 1916 he graduated from High School at the "Benigno Malo" after attending one year with a scholarship the Agriculture School of Córdoba.

Cueva attended the University of Cuenca, where he graduated as a lawyer on 1922. As a student, he presided the first Federación de Estudantes Universitarios, the Ecuadorian University Students Association.

Cueva was appointed on 1917, while still being a college student, as a teacher at the elementary school "Luis Cordero". This was very important for him, then his father had died and he had to support his younger brothers.

His first political function was as Councillor of Cuenca, an office he would have many times in the future. 1924 he was elected as a Congressman for the Azuay Province. In 1925 he was elected for a second period as a Councillor of Cuenca and on the same year he was appointed school principal of his old high school. Three years later he changed as a Director to the Board of Education of Azuay until 1932.

There was a calling for elections for a new constitution on 1928 and Cueva Tamaríz won a sit at the Constitutional Convention 1929.

He was elected as a Congressman on 1931 for the third time and 1932 he co-founded the Ecuadorian Socialist Party. The same year Cueva was appointed Secretary of the Interior under President Luis Larrea Alba, but he rejected to continue in charge under President Alfredo Baquerizo that followed him. He was nevertheless reelected as Director of the Educational Board of Azuay on the same year.

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