El progresismo ecuatoriano en el siglo XIX: La reforma del presidente Antonio Flores (1888-1892)

the progressive movement in the xixth-century, a kind of "third way" political tendency away from liberal and conservative groups, begins in the mid-century as a republican project opposed to garcia moreno's autocracy. after the president's assassination, it obtains wide public acknowledgement at the end of the century, by promoting a political reform in which the idea of progress appears as an ideology, a process and a social goal. it reaches its highest point in 1888 under the presidency of antonio flores, a liberal catholic educated in europe and supported from rome by pope leon xiii. secular reforms brought about by flores originate a strong rejection from the garcian legacy supporters headed by the ecuadorian church, and they do not become institutional transformations. the 1895 liberal revolution in ecuador will be in debt to the advances favored by the progressive movement.