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'''Esther Adelina Cuesta Santana''' (born 23 June 1975) is an [[Ecuador]]ian politician and a member of the [[National Assembly (Ecuador)|National Assembly]] and [[The Citizens' Revolution]]. Cuesta was an undocumented immigrant in the United States and currently represents the 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants in Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
'''Esther Adelina Cuesta Santana''' (born 23 June 1975) is an [[Ecuador]]ian politician and a member of the [[National Assembly (Ecuador)|National Assembly]] and [[The Citizens' Revolution]]. Cuesta was an undocumented immigrant in the United States and currently represents the 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants in Europe, Asia, and Oceania.


==Life==
==Life==
Cuesta was born in Guayaquil<ref name=biog>{{Cite web |title=Discurso Asambleísta ESTHER CUESTA - Entrega de Credenciales |url=https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/es/blogs/esther-cuesta-santana/51364-discurso-asambleista-esther-cuesta |access-date=5 August 2022 |website=Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador |language=es}}</ref> in 1975. When Cuesta was nineteen, she went on vacation to Mexico, secretly crossing the border into the United States.<ref name=umass/> She was an undocumented immigrant for "several years".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bristol |first=University of |title=2018: Ecuador´s Organic Law on Human Mobility {{!}} University of Bristol Law School {{!}} University of Bristol |url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2018/ecuadors-organic-law-on-human-mobility.html |access-date=6 August 2022 |website=www.bristol.ac.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref> Cuesta earned graduate, masters, and doctoral degrees from the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]<ref name=biog/> in 2002, 2009, and 2015, respectively. Her interests at the time were not political but in linguistics, economics, anthropology, and sociology. Cuesta's doctoral research involved studying migration to Europe from Ecuador.<ref name=umass>{{Cite web |url=https://www.umassalumni.com/show_module_fw2.aspx?sid=1640&gid=2&control_id=7383&nologo=1&cvprint=1&page_id=4463&crid=0&viewas=user |title=Dedicated to Public Service|access-date=6 August 2022 |website=www.umassalumni.com}}</ref>
Cuesta was born in Guayaquil<ref name=biog>{{Cite web |title=Discurso Asambleísta ESTHER CUESTA - Entrega de Credenciales |url=https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/es/blogs/esther-cuesta-santana/51364-discurso-asambleista-esther-cuesta |access-date=5 August 2022 |website=Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador |language=es}}</ref> in 1975. When Cuesta was nineteen, she went vacationed in Mexico, secretly crossing the border into the United States.<ref name=umass/> She was an undocumented immigrant for "several years".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bristol |first=University of |title=2018: Ecuador´s Organic Law on Human Mobility {{!}} University of Bristol Law School {{!}} University of Bristol |url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2018/ecuadors-organic-law-on-human-mobility.html |access-date=6 August 2022 |website=www.bristol.ac.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref> Cuesta earned graduate, masters, and doctoral degrees from the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]<ref name=biog/> in 2002, 2009, and 2015, respectively. Her interests at the time were not political but in linguistics, economics, anthropology, and sociology. Cuesta's doctoral research involved studying migration to Europe from Ecuador.<ref name=umass>{{Cite web |url=https://www.umassalumni.com/show_module_fw2.aspx?sid=1640&gid=2&control_id=7383&nologo=1&cvprint=1&page_id=4463&crid=0&viewas=user |title=Dedicated to Public Service|access-date=6 August 2022 |website=www.umassalumni.com}}</ref>


In 2009, Cuesta went to Italy to research and, while she was there, was offered the position of Consul<ref name=umass/> eventually becoming Ecuador's Consul General in [[Genoa]]. She was in that position until April 2015. She then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Vice Minister of Human Mobility and in 2016 she was promoted to be the Minister.<ref name=biog/> She put herself forward as a candidate for the National Assembly and she was elected in February 2017 to represent the 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants in Europe, Asia, and Oceania.<ref name="umass" /> She was appointed to be the president of the Italian-Ecuadorian Parliamentary Group and vice president of the Assembly's Committee on Foreign Relations, Sovereignty and Security.<ref name="umass" />
In 2009, Cuesta went to Italy to research and, while she was there, was offered the position of Consul<ref name=umass/> eventually becoming Ecuador's Consul General in [[Genoa]]. She was in that position until April 2015. She then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Vice Minister of Human Mobility and in 2016 she was promoted to be the Minister.<ref name=biog/> She put herself forward as a candidate for the National Assembly and she was elected in February 2017 to represent the 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants in Europe, Asia, and Oceania.<ref name="umass" /> She was appointed to be the president of the Italian-Ecuadorian Parliamentary Group and vice president of the Assembly's Committee on Foreign Relations, Sovereignty and Security.<ref name="umass" />
[[file:COMISIÓN DE RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES.QUITO 11 DE JUNIO 2018 (42741851751).jpg|thumb|left|Chairing the International Relations Commission in June 2022]]
[[file:COMISIÓN DE RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES.QUITO 11 DE JUNIO 2018 (42741851751).jpg|thumb|left|Cuesta (far right, with back to camera) at a meeting of the International Relations Commission]]
Cuesta was President of the Commission for Sovereignty, Integration, International Relations and Integral Security. She was elected by the National Assembly to that position in June 2018 with [[Ana Belen Marin]] as her vice-President.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Esther Cuesta y Ana Belén Marín dirigen la Comisión de Relaciones Internacionales |url=https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/es/noticia/56048-esther-cuesta-y-ana-belen-marin-dirigen-la-comision-de |access-date=5 August 2022 |website=Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador |language=es}}</ref>
Cuesta was President of the Commission for Sovereignty, Integration, International Relations and Integral Security. She was elected by the National Assembly to that position in June 2018 with Ana Belen Marin as her vice-President.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Esther Cuesta y Ana Belén Marín dirigen la Comisión de Relaciones Internacionales |url=https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/es/noticia/56048-esther-cuesta-y-ana-belen-marin-dirigen-la-comision-de |access-date=5 August 2022 |website=Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador |language=es}}</ref>


Before the elections in February 2021, Cuesta requested unpaid leave from the assembly so that she could take part in the elections. 42 other members also made the same request including [[Wilma Andrade]], [[Mónica Alemán]], [[Verónica Arias]], [[Dallyana Passailaigue]], [[Cristina Reyes]] and [[Silvia Lorena Vera]]. During her absence her job would be carried out by her substitute.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 January 2021 |title=43 Asambleístas solicitaron licencia para intervenir en las elecciones de febrero |url=https://mundialmedios.com/43-asambleistas-solicitaron-licencia-para-intervenir-en-las-elecciones-de-febrero/ |access-date=4 July 2022 |website=Mundial Medios |language=es}}</ref>
Before the elections in February 2021, Cuesta requested unpaid leave from the assembly so that she could take part in the elections. 42 other members also made the same request including [[Wilma Andrade]], [[Mónica Alemán]], [[Verónica Arias]], [[Dallyana Passailaigue]], [[Cristina Reyes]] and Silvia Lorena Vera. During her absence her job would be carried out by her substitute.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 January 2021 |title=43 Asambleístas solicitaron licencia para intervenir en las elecciones de febrero |url=https://mundialmedios.com/43-asambleistas-solicitaron-licencia-para-intervenir-en-las-elecciones-de-febrero/ |access-date=4 July 2022 |website=Mundial Medios |language=es}}</ref>


In July 2022 the position of vice-President of the assembly was vacant as [[Yeseña Guamaní]] had been removed by the [[Union for Hope|Union for Hope (UNES)]] faction and a replacement was required. There was a political stand-off as the parties could not agree. The [[Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country|Pachakutik party]] proposed [[Mireya Pazmino|Mireya Pazmiño]] and Mario Ruiz and the Democratic Left offered [[Johanna Moreira]]. UNES offered the names of [[Marcela Holguín]], [[Sofía Espín|Sofia Espín]] and Esther Cuesta.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Entre los bloques de la Asamblea que buscan las dos vicepresidencias aún no hay las condiciones para llegar a un acuerdo – Diario La Hora |url=https://www.lahora.com.ec/pais/entre-los-bloques-de-la-asamblea-que-buscan-las-dos-vicepresidencias-aun-no-hay-las-condiciones-para-llegar-a-un-acuerdo/ |access-date=6 August 2022 |language=es}}</ref>
In July 2022 the position of vice-President of the assembly was vacant as [[Yeseña Guamaní]] had been removed by the [[Union for Hope|Union for Hope (UNES)]] faction and a replacement was required. There was a political stand-off as the parties could not agree. The [[Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country|Pachakutik party]] proposed [[Mireya Pazmino|Mireya Pazmiño]] and Mario Ruiz and the Democratic Left offered [[Johanna Moreira]]. UNES offered Marcela Holguín, [[Sofía Espín|Sofia Espín]] and Cuesta.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Entre los bloques de la Asamblea que buscan las dos vicepresidencias aún no hay las condiciones para llegar a un acuerdo – Diario La Hora |url=https://www.lahora.com.ec/pais/entre-los-bloques-de-la-asamblea-que-buscan-las-dos-vicepresidencias-aun-no-hay-las-condiciones-para-llegar-a-un-acuerdo/ |access-date=6 August 2022 |language=es}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 17:18, 29 August 2022

Esther Cuesta
Cuesta during a session of the National Assembly on 4 August 2022
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
14 May 2017
Personal details
Born
Esther Adelina Cuesta Santana

23 June 1975
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Political partyThe Citizens' Revolution
EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Esther Adelina Cuesta Santana (born 23 June 1975) is an Ecuadorian politician and a member of the National Assembly and The Citizens' Revolution. Cuesta was an undocumented immigrant in the United States and currently represents the 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants in Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

Life

Cuesta was born in Guayaquil[1] in 1975. When Cuesta was nineteen, she went vacationed in Mexico, secretly crossing the border into the United States.[2] She was an undocumented immigrant for "several years".[3] Cuesta earned graduate, masters, and doctoral degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst[1] in 2002, 2009, and 2015, respectively. Her interests at the time were not political but in linguistics, economics, anthropology, and sociology. Cuesta's doctoral research involved studying migration to Europe from Ecuador.[2]

In 2009, Cuesta went to Italy to research and, while she was there, was offered the position of Consul[2] eventually becoming Ecuador's Consul General in Genoa. She was in that position until April 2015. She then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Vice Minister of Human Mobility and in 2016 she was promoted to be the Minister.[1] She put herself forward as a candidate for the National Assembly and she was elected in February 2017 to represent the 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants in Europe, Asia, and Oceania.[2] She was appointed to be the president of the Italian-Ecuadorian Parliamentary Group and vice president of the Assembly's Committee on Foreign Relations, Sovereignty and Security.[2]

Cuesta (far right, with back to camera) at a meeting of the International Relations Commission

Cuesta was President of the Commission for Sovereignty, Integration, International Relations and Integral Security. She was elected by the National Assembly to that position in June 2018 with Ana Belen Marin as her vice-President.[4]

Before the elections in February 2021, Cuesta requested unpaid leave from the assembly so that she could take part in the elections. 42 other members also made the same request including Wilma Andrade, Mónica Alemán, Verónica Arias, Dallyana Passailaigue, Cristina Reyes and Silvia Lorena Vera. During her absence her job would be carried out by her substitute.[5]

In July 2022 the position of vice-President of the assembly was vacant as Yeseña Guamaní had been removed by the Union for Hope (UNES) faction and a replacement was required. There was a political stand-off as the parties could not agree. The Pachakutik party proposed Mireya Pazmiño and Mario Ruiz and the Democratic Left offered Johanna Moreira. UNES offered Marcela Holguín, Sofia Espín and Cuesta.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Discurso Asambleísta ESTHER CUESTA - Entrega de Credenciales". Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Dedicated to Public Service". www.umassalumni.com. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  3. ^ Bristol, University of. "2018: Ecuador´s Organic Law on Human Mobility | University of Bristol Law School | University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Esther Cuesta y Ana Belén Marín dirigen la Comisión de Relaciones Internacionales". Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  5. ^ "43 Asambleístas solicitaron licencia para intervenir en las elecciones de febrero". Mundial Medios (in Spanish). 6 January 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Entre los bloques de la Asamblea que buscan las dos vicepresidencias aún no hay las condiciones para llegar a un acuerdo – Diario La Hora" (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2022.