Gabriel García Moreno elected president (1860-1875) Essentially liberal project... - prioritized edu - neoliberal export econ did not quite devastate aspirations of the country's youth - Despite conservativism, econ policy was sympathetic to liberal theory and prioritized investing in exports as well was infrastructure - Investment in youth as part of national project to build edu (and moral) workforce, including girls' edu (as wives and mothers) - INDIAN SCHOOLS (+ fines forcing school-aged children to wo (jan 1, 1860 – jan 1, 1875)

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"Catholic García Moreno had an essentially liberal project: to modernize the state, to forge an internal market by connecting the various regions of the country through an ambitious road and railway construction program, to develop a technical elite (he established the Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito), and to reform policing and prison policies (he built the Panopticon in Quito). García Moreno has been characterized as a caudillo who used the Church instead of the military to further his goals" (A Kim Clark, The Redemptive Work : Railway and Nation in Ecuador, 1895-1930, pp. 24)

(cacao and rubber economies never reached super high commercial demand)

wagon road connecting Quito to Guayaquil -
running b/t rubber-producing region and coast, investment in cacao to appeal to European demand and
incorporate country into world economy)

Investment in education seems to come in 1870s...

Indian schools mandated Spanish-language curriculum and induced attendence by fining haciendas forcing school-age children to work

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