Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Lucio Edwin Gutiérrez Borbúa (born March 23, 1957) is an Ecuadorian soldier and politician; he became President of Ecuador on January 15,2003 Gutiérrez was the leader of a military coup that overthrew President Jamil Mahuad Witt in 2000; he was jailed after the coup and then released. In 2002 he ran for President and defeated Alvaro Noboa in the second round with the 55% of the democratic votes. Lucio Gutiérrez is a populist figure in the same vein as Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Juan Peron in Argentina. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.