Lenin Moreno
| Lenín Moreno | |
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| United Nations Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility | |
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In office 19 December 2013 – 30 September 2016 |
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| Secretary General | Ban Ki-moon |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Vice President of Ecuador | |
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In office 15 January 2007 – 24 May 2013 |
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| President | Rafael Correa |
| Preceded by | Alejandro Serrano |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Glas |
| Personal details | |
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Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés 19 March 1953 Nuevo Rocafuerte, Ecuador |
| Political party | PAIS Alliance |
| Spouse(s) | Rocio Gonzalez |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Central University of Ecuador |
Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés (born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuadorian politician who served as Vice President of the republic from 2007 to 2013, serving under President Rafael Correa. His election as Vice President was notable because as a paraplegic, Moreno was one of the world’s few disabled national leaders. For his advocacy for handicapped people, he was nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
On 1 October 2016, he was nominated as the candidate for Correa's Alianza País in the 2017 presidential election.
Moreno was born into a middle-class family in Nuevo Rocafuerte, a small town in the Ecuadorian Amazon, near the Peruvian border. His father, Servio Tulio Moreno, was a teacher who promoted bilingual education and integrated schools for Indigenous children and mestizo children. Lenín Moreno was greatly influenced by his father’s example. He got his first name from his father, a professor who idolised Vladimir Lenin.
Moreno studied in Quito at the Instituto Nacional Mejía (Mejia National Institute), the Colegio Nacional Sebastián Benalcázar (Sebastian Benalcazar National School), and the Universidad Central del Ecuador (Central University of Ecuador), where he earned a degree in Public Administration and was honored as the best graduate. He studied psychology.
Moreno began his career in 1976 as the director of the Continental Professional Training Center. He went on to become Director of OMC Publigerencia Andina, sales manager of Satho and marketing manager of Zitro, all located in Ecuador. Then he moved to the public sector, taking an administrative post with the Minister of Government. He worked extensively in the public tourism industry. He founded the Chamber of Tourism of Pichincha, a province in Ecuador, and was Executive Director of the National Federation of Tourism Chambers and Executive Director of the Chamber of Tourism of Pichincha, between 1997 and 1999.
On 3 January 1998, two young men approached Moreno in a grocery store parking lot in Quito and told him they wanted his car and his money. He freely gave them his wallet and keys, but one of the men shot him in the back anyway. They left Moreno paralyzed, unable to walk. In the first years following the shooting, Moreno was bedridden with intractable pain. When doctors were unable to suggest a workable course of action, Moreno turned to laughter therapy, which he had read about. Although his doctors were skeptical, within four years of the shooting Moreno felt well enough to move about in a wheelchair and continue his work as a public servant.
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