Ricardo Patiño

Ricardo Armando Patiño Aroca (born 16 May 1954) is an Ecuadorian politician who served as minister of foreign affairs from 2010 to 2016, under the government of President Rafael Correa. Previously he was minister of finance and minister of the coast. He is one of the ideologists of The Citizens' Revolution, which, with Correa, wanted to gradually introduce a democratic socialist government in Ecuador. On 4 March 2016, he was named as defense minister by President Correa.