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Gabriel García Moreno was a leading figure of Ecuadorian conservatism.

Shortly after the onset of his third presidential term in 1875, García Moreno was attacked with a machete on the steps of the presidential palace by Faustino Lemos Rayo, a Colombian.

As he was dying, García Moreno took out his gun and shot Faustino Lemos, while he said Dios no Muere.

The dictator's most outstanding critic was the liberal journalist, Juan Montalvo, who exclaimed, " My pen killed him!