Some leaders are known for their personality, style, charisma and achievements, leaders who have served as role models for past, present and future generations, leaders who the difference wherever they go. , leaders who only need a balcony to become president of a country, leaders of the people and for the people, leaders like José María Velasco Ibarra, a man who became president of Ecuador five times thanks to the decision of the people. The objective of this article is to analyze the personal history and behaviors of José María Velasco Ibarra, one of the greatest political leaders in the history of Ecuador. Throughout Ecuador's history, a large number of sitting presidents have not completed their presidential terms. While some presidents succeed in carrying out their presidency, many do not. This article focuses on Ecuadorian President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his characteristics as a leader analyzing his personal history, traits, skills and behaviors. Velasco served as president five times, only once for a full term of four consecutive years. José Maria Velasco Ibarra was born in Quito on March 19, 1893. He was the son of Juan Velasco Alejandrino Sarda and Delia Ibarra. Soberon. He never went to school and completed his studies with his mother. At 16, he suffered the loss of his father; attended high school at San Gabriel Centennial College and earned a doctorate in jurisprudence from the Central University of Ecuador; he studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris. At that time, Velasco Ibarra began to develop his leadership traits, extroverted, intelligent, very fluid in his ideas and thoughts, the first step in his process to become a great leader of the people. José M...... middle of paper... ...yes, everyone runs. Velasco Ibarra did not arrive in government thanks to the usual frauds in some Spanish-American countries. His wife Corina Parral de Velasco Ibarra died in Buenos Aires, falling from a public bus, since the Velasco Ibarra couple had neither a vehicle nor any other material goods. This brought forward the death of Velasco Ibarra, who in his old age could not bear such an incident and, after returning to Ecuador, upon arriving he declared: "I come to meditate and die." A few days later, on March 30, 1979, he died in Quito. Works CitedNorthouse, Peter G. (2010). “Leadership: theory and practice. » 5th edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. Vicuna, Ivan. (1990). “Biography of José Maria Velazco Ibarra.” Quito, Ecuador. Editorial Atlantis Cia. Ltda.Revista Vistazo. (2009). “Líderes Mesiánicos: José Maria Velasco Ibarra.” Guayaquil. Ecuador. Editorial Vistazo.