Overview
- Presidential officials confirmed Borja died Thursday in Quito at age 90, with no cause of death disclosed.
- President Daniel Noboa ordered national mourning from Dec. 19 to 21 with flags at half‑staff across public buildings.
- The government decreed a state funeral for Borja, while his family has not yet announced funeral arrangements.
- Condolences were issued by national and local institutions and public figures, including Noboa, Guillermo Lasso and the Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua.
- Borja governed from 1988 to 1992 as a leading social democrat, founding Izquierda Democrática, advancing a national literacy drive, overseeing the 1990 indigenous uprising’s political turning point and the 1991 disarmament of Alfaro Vive, later authoring the Encyclopedia of Politics.