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According to the researcher, MarĂa del Carmen
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Molestina is currently conducting, is directed at when the so-called looting began. The Carondelet Palace was restored during the presidency of Camilo Ponce Enriquez (1956–1960) and until the presidency of León Febres Cordero (1984–1988), all was as it should have been.
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Under this system, it is now possible to acknowledge the cultural, historical and/or ethnographic value to presidential gifts and to identify all objects that represent and embody customs, traditions, ideologies, and forms of thinking of different
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functioned near the convent of La Merced (current Cuenca and Chile streets). After Diego Suarez de
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sometimes. He wondered at the elegance and austerity of the building and was delighted with the taste of the Baron of
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