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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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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