QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa stunned voters in 2023 when he won a snap election for a 16-month presidency after only a brief stint as a lawmaker and with no established political machinery.
No longer a political neophyte, the conservative millionaire defeated the protegee of Ecuador’s most influential recent president for a second time and earned four years in office with Sunday’s election victory.
The new term will allow Noboa, 37 and heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, to continue some of his no-holds-barred crimefighting strategies that part of the electorate finds appealing but which have tested the limits of laws and norms of
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