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Birth Name: Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza
Place of Birth: Guayaquil, Ecuador
Date of Birth: 16 November, 1955
Ethnicity: Ecuadorian [Spanish (Andalusian, Canary Islander, Cantabrian, and Castilian), remote Belgian Flemish and Italian, possibly other]
Guillermo Lasso is an Ecuadorian businessperson, banker, writer, and politician. He has been President of Ecuador , from 24 May, 2021 to 23 November, 2023. He was also Governor of Guayas, from 10 August, 1998 to 17 August, 1999, Minister of the Economy, from 17 August, 1999 to 24 September, 1999, and Ecuadorian Itinerant Ambassador, from 15 January, 2003 to 15 April, 2003. He ran for the presidency of Ecuador in 2013, 2017, and 2021, winning the third time.
President Lasso is the son of Enrique Lasso Alvarado and Nora Mercedes Mendoza Poggio. He is married to María de Lourdes Alcívar Crespo, with whom he has five children.
President Lasso’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his eighth great-grandfather, Francisco Lasso de la Vega, of Saldaña, Palencia, Spain.
President Lasso’s paternal grandfather was Antonio Lasso de la Vega y Vega (the son of Joaquín Lasso de la Vega y Aguirre and Juana Vega). Joaquín was the son of Juan José Lasso de la Vega y Velasco and Antonia Aguirre Angulo.
President Lasso’s paternal grandmother was María Luisa Alvarado Mazón (the daughter of Francisco Alvarado y Chica and Petrona Anselma Alegría Mazón Buenaño). Francisco was the son of José Eugenio Salvador Alvarado Illescas and Policarpa Apolinaria Montúfar. Petrona was the daughter of José Lizardo Mazón and María Antonia Buenaño.
President Lasso’s maternal grandfather was Rafael María Mendoza Pinoargote (the son of Tomás Mendoza and Mercedes Pinoargote).
President Lasso’s maternal grandmother was Magdalena Poggio Mendoza (the daughter of Manuel Miguel María Poggio Lugo and Isabel Mendoza de Vera). Manuel was born in Santa Cruz de La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, the son of Félix José Joaquín Poggio Alfaro and Manuela Lugo-Viña Sotomayor. Isabel was the daughter of Juan Mendoza Zevallos and Mariana de Jesús de Vera y de Guzmán.
President Lasso’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his fifth great-grandmother, María Duque de Estrada.
Source: Genealogy of Guillermo Lasso – http://gw.geneanet.org