Ecuador Presidential Election

[TBoneTX 45,258]

No online articles in English yet (will post, when found), so here's the scuttlebutt directly from Ecuavisa television:

 

Daniel Noboa, a businessman, who at age 35 becomes Ecu's youngest-ever president, defeated socialist Luisa Gonzalez, approx. 52% to 48%.  Noboa will fill the remaining 1.5 years left in the term of Guillermo Lasso, who was booted out months ago.

[TBoneTX 45,258]

Here 'tis, with a link inside.

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Another blow for the left:  Ecuador elects a conservative new president

 

First Australia and New Zealand over the weekend, and now that it's Monday, it's another bad day to wake up a leftist.

Over in Ecuador, where an assassination took out a conservative frontrunner to its presidential race just weeks before the vote, another right-winger stepped up to the plate to openly and directly reject socialism — and sure enough, got elected, 52.3-47.7.  [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/another_blow_for_the_left_ecuador_elects_a_conservative_new_president.html

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A ray of hope in Ecuador

 

Years ago, we spoke of Ecuador and having some of the wonderful "ceviche" they prepare in Guayaquil.  It was a quiet and beautiful country that rarely made the front pages.  Today, Ecuador suffers the narco violence and social upheaval that its neighbors face.  You may remember that a presidential candidate was killed weeks ago.

On Sunday, a little ray of hope came from Ecuador.  They had elections and a good guy won.  This is the story:  [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/a_ray_of_hope_in_ecuador.html

[TBoneTX 45,258]

Very sad.  Will try to find out details from Ecu sources.

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Drug Gangs Take Over TV Station, Prisons in Ecuador

[...] Sunday, one of Ecuador's most notorious gang leaders escaped from prison.  That led Ecuador's president to declare a state of emergency and a massive manhunt was underway Monday.  [...]

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/01/09/drug-gangs-take-over-tv-station-prisons-in-ecuador-n603916

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22 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

details from Ecu sources

OK -- verbal source who said, in short, "We have gangs that we didn't know we had!"

 

Some weeks back, a presidential candidate (F. Villavicencio) was assassinated.  Months before that, a top narco was killed.  Recently, the top prosecutor investigating FV's assassination looked into the encrypted cell phone of the dead narco.  She found a spider's web of connections to politicians, other narcos, etc.  This news spread through the prisons, and the narcos there began forming formal gangs and becoming violent.  A couple of narcos escaped while being moved between prisons.  All this roused the street-narcos, who also began forming gangs.  Regular "petty" criminals also joined in.  The disturbances spread per the news reports.

 

The brand-new, very young president of Ecu hasn't given in.  He has declared an internal emergency and has vowed that the gangs will be busted and the guilty punished.  The problems are occurring around Ecu, but not in every neighborhood all the time -- ask people, and they might say and point, "They're 10 km that way and that way."

 

It remains to be seen how soon this turmoil will settle down.

 

I (T-B.) get the impression that this is rather opportunistic, because in my own experience and familiarity with the news there, nothing like this had ever happened except when all the police went on strike one time years ago and all the looters came out to rob the stores.

[TBoneTX 45,258]

Ah -- here's a thread that says much the same thing as just above:

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/01/10/what-is-going-on-in-ecuador-n2633415

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6 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Ah -- here's a thread that says much the same thing as just above:

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/01/10/what-is-going-on-in-ecuador-n2633415

Seems this is much more of an example of an insurrection than anything seen here in the US post Civil War.

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15 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Seems this is much more of an example of an insurrection than anything seen here in the US post Civil War.

It can't possibly be!  Trump isn't involved!

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Ecuador president defies gangs to take on the army

Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa has challenged armed gangs to take on the military rather than civilians as soldiers were deployed to combat the criminal groups.  [...]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67944447

[TBoneTX 45,258]

Interesting stories, and the article gives accurate perspective.

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Ecuador city tries to return to normal after gang horror

Few residents have fully recovered from the shock - from the outright chaos and bloodshed - of this week, a moment which will live long in the city's collective memory.

 

But Dina Moreno can't afford to stay home any longer.  She sells mobile phone accessories at Guayaquil's biggest covered market and, like many of her fellow stallholders, has ventured out to open her business and get back to work.  [...]

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67950833

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This young president is a fighter, not a Bidementia-type wimp.  Refreshing to read, and perhaps we can be envious.

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Ecuador violence affects whole world, president tells BBC

 

Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa has told the BBC the gang violence which dramatically exploded this week in his country is a problem for the whole world.  [...]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67964229

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U.S. retirees found affordability in Ecuador.  What happens when crisis hits?

At her house in Ecuador's third largest city, its colonial buildings framed by the Andes mountains, LaRahna Hughes’ phone buzzed repeatedly with messages from relatives and friends back in the United States.

Are you OK? Are you getting out of the country?

It was early January, and Ecuador's president declared that the nation had entered an "internal armed conflict," mobilizing the military to fight drug gangs.  The growing violence had reached a boiling point. There had been bombings.  Prison guards were taken hostage.  Masked gunmen took over a live TV broadcast.  [...]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-retirees-found-affordability-ecuador-103039852.html

[TBoneTX 45,258]

Interesting article.

 

Ecu's president isn't backing down.  Since January 8, more than 8,000 people have been arrested, including 241 on charges of terrorism.

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Ecuador's most notorious gang leader lived 'like a king' while locked up.  His jailbreak shines a light on the country's lawless prisons

 

With its four-piece bathroom suite, queen-size bed and mini fridge, the untidy prison cell of the notorious leader of the Los Choneros gang, José Adolfo Macías, could have been in a hotel instead of one of Ecuador's largest prison complexes.  [...]

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ecuador-most-notorious-gang-leader-130024133.html