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Amid escalating drug war, Ecuador goes to polls to elect new president
FirstpostEcuadorans vote for a new president Sunday in the midst of a bloody drug war and a rash of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate Ecuadorans vote for a new president Sunday in the midst of a bloody drug war and a rash of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate. Both relative unknowns, a win for either candidate would make history: Gonzalez becoming Ecuador’s first woman president, or Noboa its youngest. Gonzalez is the handpicked candidate of socialist ex-president Rafael Correa, who governed from 2007 to 2017 and lives in exile in Belgium to avoid serving an eight-year prison term for graft – another major concern in the South American country. “Together we are going to change this country.” For her part, Gonzalez traveled to Guayaquil, the city hardest hit by the recent violence, where she told supporters: “In unity we will raise this Ecuador… that cries out for peace, for security, for employment, for health, for medicine.” Ecuador has a poverty rate of 27 percent, with a quarter of the population either unemployed or holding down an informal job.
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