prefect of Esmeraldas
Lucía Sosa (politician) took which position in May 2014?
Lucía Sosa ( politician ) Lucía de Lourdes Sosa Robinzon ( born February 6 , 1957 ) is an Ecuadorian teacher , engineer , and politician , who was prefect of Esmeraldas Province from 2005 to 2013 and 2014 to 2018 , and is currently mayor of the city of the same name . Biography . Lucía Sosa entered the Rafael Palacios de Esmeraldas school , where she completed her primary education . She attended the Margarita Cortez and Luis Vargas Torres Normal schools , obtaining the title of Bachelor in Educational Sciences at the latter . At age 18 , she met her future husband , Luis Antonio Pimentel . At the , she earned a licentiate in political science and economics , and shortly thereafter , the title of at the Cooperative University of Colombia . She taught for 28 years , becoming known as an innovator . In 2003 she was president of the . As president and vice president of the Unemployment Fund of the Ecuadorian Magisterium ( FCME ) , she carried out works such as the completion of 250 homes , leading her to advance in politics . In the , Sosa was the candidate for prefect of Esmeraldas Province for the Democratic Peoples Movement ( MPD ) . She was elected with 47,579 votes , breaking the hold the Ecuadorian Roldosist Party ( PRE ) had had on the office for eight years . While prefect , she gave birth to twins in July 2012 . Prefect of Esmeraldas Province . On January 5 , 2005 , Lucía Sosa took office as prefect of Esmeraldas . During her term she oversaw public works projects such as roads , bridges , and irrigation systems in the rural sector of the province . She promoted citizen participation in these works and the preparation of the budget . She retained her office in the with 89,260 votes , although she would not complete her term after being dismissed by the Constitutional Court and replaced by Rafael Erazo in 2013 . During this period , she was part of the formation of the on January 21 , 2011 . She would assume the presidency of this entity in 2013 and 2017 , and its vice presidency in 2012 and 2016 on behalf of Esmeraldas . She opposed the integration of La Concordia into Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province . Sosa was reelected to the prefecture in , despite the repetition of voting in two parishes of Muisne that reported irregularities and were suspended on the day they were scheduled . After the 2016 earthquake , Sosa accused the central government of Rafael Correa of excluding Esmeraldas from reconstruction , while owing $14.6 million to the prefecture . In 2017 , she opposed a proposal that prefects be elected by the rural sector alone , indicating that it was unconstitutional and would bias the budget of prefectures in favor of the rural sector . During incidents on the Ecuadorian border with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) , she indicated that she had asked the Correa regime for more surveillance of the border by monitoring the northern zone by helicopter , but the idea was not acted on by the government . At the end of 2018 , Sosa resigned as prefect in order to participate as a candidate for mayor of the city of Esmeraldas . Mayor of Esmeraldas . Lucía Sosa was victorious in the , becoming mayor of Esmeraldas for the Popular Unity party with 42,071 votes . She took office on May 14 , 2019 , vowing to focus on reconstruction of municipal offices which were damaged in the previous months earthquake .