ENGLISH WORK - DON EVARISTO
DON EVARISTO Don Evaristo, He was born in Ambato, city of the country Ecuador in 1912. We all know or at least have heard of this character. His unforgettable name resonates in the collective memory; however, do we know who it really was? The new generations remember him more for the caricature of the good-natured chubby man with a mustache that gave positive messages, transmitted as propaganda from the Municipality of Quito in the 90's. The younger ones don't even recognize it. Personified by the brilliant Quito artist Ernesto Albán Mosquera, "Don Evaristo" achieved great fame and walked his sympathetic figure throughout the country representing the famous "Estampas Quiteñas" -many of them written by Pedro Jorge Vera-, in which he cheerfully it dealt with the different moments of national events. His voice served as an indispensable counterpoint to the misfortunes of daily life in our country. Albán knew how to capture the political reality tha...
