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Ecuador election heads to runoff – Indigenous movement now holds key to the outcome

Ecuador’s presidential election will go to a second round after the current president, Daniel Noboa, and the candidate for the left-wing Revolución Ciudadana (RC) party, Luisa González, received nearly identical shares of the vote.

The Conversation

Crisis in Ecuador: Three Keys to Understanding the Political Unrest and Surge in Violence

President Noboa declared an "internal armed conflict" on Tuesday, but the country has been on a slippery slope for years; this is how we got here

Latin Times

Ecuador's newly sworn-in president repeals guidelines allowing people to carry limited drug amounts

Ecuador President Daniel Noboa — less than 48 hours into his term — has repealed controversial guidelines that eliminated penalties for people found carrying illegal drugs under certain amounts

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Daniel Noboa Sworn In as Ecuador's President, Vowing to Restore Peace

The banana-empire heir will serve only 18 months, the rest of Lasso's term.

Latin Times

Ecuador's Youngest-ever President Daniel Noboa Takes Office

Ecuador's new president, the 35-year-old millionaire heir to a business empire, Daniel Noboa, took office Thursday as the leader of a country gripped by a bloody drug war.

International Business Times

Rep. Joaquin Castro warns of GOP’s adversarial rhetoric around Latino immigrants

Castro, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, has made improving discussion of Latinos and Latino issues in politics a focus of his time in office.

The Texas Tribune

What Ecuador’s New President Needs from Washington—And Fast

The country’s youngest-ever leader has less than 18 months to govern before the next election.

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Daniel Noboa, heir to banana fortune, wins Ecuador's presidential runoff election

Inexperienced politician Daniel Noboa won Ecuador's presidential runoff election Sunday held amid unprecedented violence that even claimed the life of a candidate.

WEKU

Daniel Noboa, heir to banana dynasty, wins Ecuador's presidential election

Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election Sunday held amid unprecedented violence that even claimed the life of a candidate.

France 24

Ecuadorians electing new president, choosing between an heir to a banana empire and an attorney

Frightened by unprecedented violence on the streets and within prisons, Ecuadorians have a universal demand for their next president — safety

The Independent UK

Ecuadorians are picking a new president, but their demands for safety will be hard to meet

Voters in Ecuador are getting ready to pick a new president

The Independent UK

Six suspects in assassination of Ecuador candidate are found dead in prison cell

Alleged assassins found dead in notorious Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil

The Independent UK

Colombians held over Ecuador presidential candidate’s murder slain in jail

Ecuador’s president pledges to get to bottom of killings in prison of six Colombian suspects in high-profile murder.

Al Jazeera

US offers $5m reward for insight into Ecuador election assassination

US Secretary of State Blinken announced the reward as part of an ongoing probe into Fernando Villavicencio’s death.

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The Independent UK

UN report on Ecuador links crime with poverty, faults government for not ending bonded labor

A U.N. envoy is urging urged Ecuador’s leaders to boost enforcement of labor laws and end popular fuel subsidies

The Independent UK

A presidential runoff is likely in Ecuador between an ally of ex-president and a banana tycoon’s son

The vote count in Ecuador's special presidential election points to a leftist backed by the country’s fugitive ex-president likely facing a runoff with the son of a banana tycoon

WEKU

Ecuador's presidential election moves toward a runoff vote in October

No candidate in Sunday's special presidential election received enough support to be declared winner. The vote took place amid thousands of police officers and soldiers deployed across the country.

France 24

Ecuador votes in presidential poll after a campaign marked by candidate’s murder

Ecuadorians put aside fears of leaving their homes amid unprecedented violence and voted for a new president Sunday in a special election that was heavily guarded by police and soldiers in part due to the assassination of a presidential candidate this month.

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The Independent UK

Ecuadorians choosing a new president amid increasing violence that may scare away voters

More than 100,000 police and soldiers have taken up positions to protect people voting for Ecuador’s next president

The Guardian - UK

Ecuador election: assassination looms large as voters prepare to go to polls

Winner of Sunday’s vote will face huge public demand to tackle violence after killing of candidate Fernando Villavicencio

The Conversation

Ecuador: how this 'island of peace' in Latin America has become a hotbed of violence run by criminal gangs and drug cartels

After the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito on August 9, former president Rafael Correa posted a message on his social media feed: “Ecuador has become a failed state.” It was a stark message as the country prepares to go to the polls on Sunday August 20.

The Week

What next for Ecuador after Fernando Villavicencio assassination?

“If someone messes with the people, he is messing with my family.”

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m not afraid’: Ecuador’s assassinated presidential candidate who fought the cartels

Killing of Fernando Villavicencio ahead of elections comes as country struggles with surge in drug-related violence

The Independent UK

Leader of Ecuadorian crime gang moved to maximum-security prison days after candidate's killing

Ecuador's government has moved the leader of one of the country’s most powerful gangs into a maximum-security prison

WEKU

How Ecuador reached the shocking point of a political assassination

Ecuador is in a state of emergency after the assassination of a leading presidential candidate. Here's how the country got to this point.

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