DEATHS

The Washington Post | June 11, 1990 | Copyright

ALFREDO POVEDA

Ecuador Leader

Retired Navy Adm. Alfredo Poveda, 64, who led a military junta that ruled Ecuador from 1976 until turning over power to a civilian government in 1979, died June 7 at a hospital in Miami after a heart attack.

He replaced Gen. Guillermo Rodriguez Lara, who four years earlier had overthrown five-term President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra after the civilian canceled elections and declared himself dictator.

Although Adm. Poveda reached power through the military hierarchy, he set up a system to return the government to civilian power. The constitutional process he ...

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