Why Ecuador’s Young President Matters to Washington
Democracy, immigration and the US-China competition all intersect in Ecuador. Here are three ideas on how US officials can help.
He’s only 35 years old, and his term will last only a year and a half. But whether Daniel Noboa succeeds as Ecuador’s next president will have outsize importance for democracy in the Americas, and there are things that Washington can and should do to help him. Noboa takes office on November 23 and will serve out the rest of Guillermo Lasso’s term after that leader, besieged by low popularity and an alarming escalation in organized crime, called early elections. The road to power has been pitted. The assassination of a leading candidate preceded a razor-thin runoff featuring two...
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