Jaime Edmundo Rodríguez Ordóñez was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1940 and died in Los Angeles, California, on June 27, 2022. An elegant man of impeccable dress, the look and manners of a Spanish caballero, and great precision in speech, don Jaime was a figure to be reckoned with in any group because of his quiet assertion of his views and his vast knowledge of his chosen field.
His father was Colonel Luis A. Rodríguez Sandoval, a military reformer who after graduating from Ecuador's military academy helped found its air corps. Colonel Rodríguez then had served as commander of the Ecuadorean Border Security Command during the 1941 war between Ecuador and Peru. He went on to write a well-respected analysis of that conflict, serve on the High Court of Military Justice, and dedicate his later years to helping organize the army's archives to further Ecuadorean military research. Jaime Rodríguez's mother...
