Jaime Galarza Zavala

Jaime Galarza Zavala (28 July 1930^[1][2][3] – 20 July 2023) was an Ecuadorian Marxist, journalist, revolutionary, author, poet, and politician. As an associate and student of Che Guevara^[4], he co-founded the Unión Revolucionaria de la Juventud Ecuatoriana and, as a result, was a political prisoner under the Rodríguez Lara regime. The Hampton Think Institute has described him as "one of the most prominent leaders of the radicalized left and one of the notorious targets of the CIA"^[5]. Jaime Galarza is one of the estimated 120 direct victims of the CIA in Ecuador.^[6] In 2007, he was awarded the national prize, Premio Eugenio Espejo, by then President Rafael Correa.