Noboa, 37, declared Ecuador to be in a state of “internal armed conflict” in January 2024, allowing him to deploy thousands of soldiers to the streets to combat gangs and to charge people with terrorism counts for alleged ties to organized crime groups.
Daniel Noboa and Luisa Gonzalez again vie for Ecuador's top job in election runoff
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Esteban Ron, dean of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences at the International University SEK in Quito, said Noboa will be forced to reengineer his campaign at the risk that he may have already reached his vote ceiling.
Ecuador's conservative incumbent and a leftist attorney advance to presidential runoff
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