Velasco Mogollón, Ermel Neptalí

Abstract

Son of Manuel Velasco and Victoria Mogollón. Married to Blanca Margarita Abad Grijalva. He had two children, Margarita and Fernando, the latter known as El Conejo (The Rabbit), a young leftist intellectual and father – along with Rosa María Torres – of the Ecuadorian singer, Juan Fernando Velasco Torres (Margarita Velasco Abad, personal communication, April 8, 2020). Velasco entered Escuela de los Hermanos Cristianos (Christian Brothers School) elementary school, then he transferred to Escuela Leopoldo Chávez (Leopoldo Chávez School, 1922–1925) and finished his studies there. He completed his high school studies at Colegio Normal Juan Montalvo (Juan Montalvo Normal School, 1925–1931) where he graduated as a normalist teacher (Velasco-Mogollón, n.d.). He studied to become a professor of psychology at the Universidad Central del Ecuador (Central University of Ecuador, UCE, 1932–1936) (Pérez-Pimentel, 1996).