When Gran Colombia had just become independent from Spain, Simón Bolívar named (by finger, as autocrats do) the Venezuelan General Juan José Flores as governor of the Southern District -consisting of Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca-, but Flores' ambition shattered the dreams of the Liberator Simón Bolívar and he took up arms proclaiming the Independence of the state of Ecuador. Thus was born, in the year 1830, a small country with almost non-existent borders and all of them in conflict, with hardly any access roads between its three most important cities.
The mandate of Juan José Flores It really was a dictatorship, because once he took up arms he proclaimed himself president, he elected 21 “ notable citizens ” (seven from each city, coincidentally all of them landowners and his friends) to endorse the First Constitution of the country as a Republic. It was in his third presidential term that the Ecuadorians rose up and finally overthrew him and his Praetorian Guard of Venezuelan generals. 
General Juan Jose Flores
Before accepting defeat, the shrewd Venezuelan dictator drew up a document called the Virginia Pact , by which the General peacefully handed over power and, in exchange, the Ecuadorian State had to guarantee him his military status, the conservation of numerous properties in the country and an income of 20,000 pesos that would provide him with a comfortable exile in Europe. Flores left the country and the new Ecuadorian government hardly took long to break that miserable Treaty. Aware of the news, the General organized a Machiavellian plan from Europe to regain power. He made his way to England and contacted the Irish General Richard Wright whom he entrusted with the task of recruiting mercenaries, weapons and warships to invade Ecuador. From there he went to France where he tried to get more support for his risky undertaking, even proposing to turn Ecuador into a monarchy under a European prince, with himself as regent. Finally, in the Kingdom of Naples, the Spanish ambassador, the Duke of Rivas , he heard his plans to place a European prince at the head of the South American country and, from there, expand the borders of Ecuador to the south.
Queen María Cristina de Borbón , widow of Fernando VII and regent of her Kingdom given the minority of her daughter, the future Isabel II, she enthusiastically welcomed Flores' plans. She sounded good about placing one of her children on the throne of an American country, in this case from her second marriage to Agustín Muñoz Sánchez , a palace guard sergeant. A secret marriage and, of course, morganatic , the type of marriage that occurred between nobles and commoners, also called “marriage with the left ”, because in this type of marriage the groom held the bride's right hand with his left, when it is normal to do it the other way around. This is one of the few cases where "the nobleman" was a woman. The union might have been kept hidden had it not been for the fact that the couple began having children almost immediately. The queen, officially a widow, appeared in public acts trying to hide her successive stages of pregnancy by wearing wide dresses that hid her bulging belly -in circles around the palace it was said that “the regent is a secretly married lady and pregnant in public ”. And well, with all the illusion of a mother who wants the best for her children, Queen María Cristina was also duped by Flores and paid a significant sum so that her son Agustín Muñoz y Borbón was king in America. At the end of 1846, General Flores had some 1,500 men quartered in the port of Santander, and Spain dreamed of reconquering some of its former colonies.
María Cristina Borbón – Agustín Muñoz
Where did all this end? Well, as usual. Every time an arrogant guy appears, with the air of a liberator, you should never expect anything good.
In England and Ireland, Wright had managed to muster two battalions of 400 men each and three ships - two steamboats converted into warships and a third for troop transport and logistics. In England, General Flores also presented a monarchical proposal, in which he included not only Ecuador but also a platform to take Peru and Bolivia by force from there. The idea that he sold to the English was to form a federated state of three kingdoms and share it with Spain, just as England and Scotland were unified in the United Kingdom of Great Britain or as the associated crowns in the Austrian Empire. This attempt is known as the United Kingdom of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia , with a throne in the city of Quito and whose monarch would be the aforementioned boy Agustín Muñoz de Borbón, whom the Queen had already called:Prince of Ecuador and Restorer of the monarchy in Peru and Bolivia .
For better or for worse, ever since diplomacy was created espionage was created. These plans were underway in secret, but something leaked to the accredited Peruvian embassy in London and it was the Peruvian ambassador Juan Manuel Iturregui who sounded the alarm denouncing the secret plan of the Venezuelan Flores to all the Latin American foreign ministries. The British press stripped Flores completely naked, and declared that the Venezuelan project was a threat against British economic interests. England ended up confiscating the Flores boats that were practically ready to sail. Flores, who was at court in Madrid, left for England to defend himself against him and obtain the return of his ships, but faced with the possibility of being involved in the trial, he decided to stay in Paris. When he was back, the Madrid newspapers had already published the news of the seizure of his ships, for which the cabinet that had supported him was forced to resign, among other reasons because of his support for the crazy adventure of establishing a monarchy in Ecuador. Flores remained several more months in Europe, futilely trying to retrieve his ship for the next decade. This earned the first Ecuadorian president to be recognized for his brilliant, but at the same time pernicious ideas, such as the “ King of the night ”.
After this frustrated colonialist attempt, the Peruvian foreign minister Paz Soldán He addressed a circular inviting continental governments to the American Congress of 1847, held in Lima, to draw up a continental defense treaty for the Hispanic-American nations against all forms of foreign aggression. This objective was reflected in the great Treaty of Confederation of 1848 and constitutes the legal precedent of the pacts of the League of Nations, the OAS and the UN.
Collaboration of Carlos Suasnavas