According to various sources, Jaime and León Roldós Aguilera were brothers. It is not clear from the sources currently available to the IRBDC if León Roldós (vice-president under Oswaldo Hurtado) belonged to the same party as his brother Jaime, since Oswaldo Hurtado (Jaime Roldós's vice-president) belonged to the Democracia Popular (Popular Democracy, DP) party which formed part of the Jaime Roldós's government coalition (see Ecuador: Fragile Democracy, p. 48, attached to the response to information request 6119). Page 53 of the same source, as well as the attached section of South America, Central America and the Caribbean 1988, pp. 331-332, particularly the first paragraph of page 332, report disagreements between León Roldós and Oswaldo Hurtado. León Roldós, according to the first source, dissented with and accused Hurtado of abandoning Jaime Roldós's policies. This disagreement reportedly led to the creation of the People, Change and Democracy party (Pueblo, Cambio y Democracia, PCD), later named PCD-PRP (PRP standing for Partido Roldosista Popular, or Popular Roldosist Party). This political events are summarized in the abovementioned sources and in the attached copies of Political Parties of the World (London/Chicago: St. James Press, 1988), pp. 149-151, and Latin American Political Movements (London: Longman Publishing Group, 1986), pp. 102 and 111.

Specific references to links between Jaime Roldós and the Ecuadorean army could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC. However, references to the relation between the military and the Roldós government can be found in page 43 of Ecuador: Fragile Democracy and page 17 of the attached article "Instability in Ecuador" from Current History of January 1988, under the subheading "The civil-military conflict". Page 50 of Ecuador: Fragile Democracy suggests that the armed conflict with Peru which took place in the beginning of the eighties may have been linked to the Roldós government's sharp price increases, indicating that the patriotic and other emotions prompted by the conflict effectively suppressed the unrest which could have been expected with such economic measures.

Influence on Ecuadorean politics by the Roldós family as a whole could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC. However, various attachments included with this and other responses to information requests on Ecuador (ECU6119 and ECU6121) provide information on the roles of Jaime and León Roldós in Ecuadorean politics, both in government and within the political parties related to them. The section of Ecuador: Fragile Democracy attached to response ECU6119 and the attached articles from Current History, "Instability in Ecuador" and "Ecuador swings toward social democracy" (March 1989) provide some insight of Ecuadorean politics, including the role of families, "caudillismo" and political elites. Something that might be relevant to your question is the reported family relationship between Jaime Roldós and Abdal Bucaram (the World Encyclopedia of Political Systems & Parties, page 304, attached to response ECU6121, states that Abdal Bucaram was Jaime Roldós's brother-in-law. Bucaram has been an influential politician and former mayor of Guayaquil; he is mentioned in some of the attachments to these and the other related responses on Ecuador, including the article "Ecuador swings to Social Democracy", particularly p. 139).