Tag: Correa, Rafael

Ecuador’s Attorney General Took on Drug Gangs. Then Chaos Broke Out.

Just weeks before Ecuador descended into chaos, with prison riots, two escaped criminal kingpins and the brief siege of a television station, the country’s top prosecutor launched a major operation aimed at rooting out narco-corruption at the highest levels of government. The investigation, called “Caso Metastasis,” led to raids across Ecuador and more than 30 […]

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Daniel Noboa Set to Win Ecuador’s Presidency

Daniel Noboa, a center-right scion of a banana empire, was set to win Ecuador’s presidential race on Sunday night with more than three-quarters of the votes counted, in a high-stakes campaign driven by an electorate frustrated with the country’s surging violence and ailing economy. The political outsider was poised to defeat Luisa González, a leftist […]

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Is Daniel Noboa the Answer to Ecuador’s Need for Change?

For generations, the Noboa family has helped shape Ecuador, overseeing a vast economic empire, including fertilizers, plastics, cardboard, the country’s largest container storage facility and, most famously, a gargantuan banana business featuring one of the world’s most recognizable fruit brands, Bonita. One notable position has escaped them, however: the presidency. On five occasions, the head […]

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