Ecuador's exports will grow in value from…

Ecuador's exports will grow in value from slightly more than US$1 million to nearly US$10 million between 1852 and 1890.

Production of cocoa, the most important export product in the late nineteenth century, will grow from six and a half million kilograms to eighteen million kilograms during the same period.

The agricultural export interests, centered in the coastal region near Guayaquil, become closely associated with the Liberals, whose political power also grows steadily during the interval.

After the death of García Moreno, it will take the Liberals twenty years to consolidate their strength sufficiently to assume control of the government in Quito.