Crime remains at the forefront of Ecuador’s presidential election as voters choose between former lawmakers Luisa González or Daniel Noboa on Sunday.
The run-off vote comes months after the high-profile assassination of another presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, who was slain days before the August 20 first-round poll. His death became a tragic symbol of the country’s worsening security situation, where rival criminal organizations have been meting out brutal and often public shows of violence in the country’s streets and prisons in their battle to control drug trafficking routes.
He was sentenced in absentia in 2020 to eight years in prison for aggravated bribery, a charge he has repeatedly denied. González has promised to enhance public spending and social programs and wants to address the security crisis by fixing the root causes of violence, such as poverty and inequality. A former tourism and labor minister in Correa’s government, González has also called for the judiciary to be reinforced to help with prosecutions, analysts say.
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