He has also advocated for the US to re-establish a military base in Ecuador to help fight the drug trade. He even attended US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January and later followed ...

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa claimed ... “because he’s saying we have no sovereignty, we have no control over these areas.” ...

“The problem is that Ecuadoreans have no memory; they forget things.” Five years ago, Mr. Noboa was a political unknown. He was elected in 2021 to Ecuador’s legislature, where he served one ter ...

we have no control over these areas.” The assertion amounts to an endorsement from the sitting president that Ecuador is a “narco state,” Pinto added.

But Noboa’s 14 months in office have been no less turbulent. Ecuador’s youngest ever president has declared numerous states of emergency, deployed military units to tackle gang activity ...

(CNN) — Polls have closed and votes are now being counted in Ecuador’s general election, where 16 candidates are vying for the presidency, including incumbent Daniel Noboa and his main ...