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There is no doubt that Noboa’s rhetoric and security measures bear a strong resemblance to President Nayib Bukele’s approach to insecurity in El Salvador.

Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa is facing a series of challenges, including an ongoing internal security crisis, questions around his economic reform plans, and concerns over new military cooperation with the US.

President Noboa has declared Ecuador to be in a state of “internal armed conflict” and ordered the armed forces to “neutralize” organized criminal groups.

Daniel Noboa was finally inaugurated on November 23 in front of Ecuador’s legislature, the National Assembly. In his speech, the new president emphasized youth and pragmatism, and claimed his priorities would be security and employment.

On October 15, Ecuadorians returned to the ballot box to elect a new president.

With the runoff of the presidential election just a few days away, recent polls indicate that, as in the first round, the second presidential debate will likely have a strong influence on the final outcome.

Now that the dust has settled from the first round of elections, all eyes are on the upcoming runoff between conservative candidate Daniel Noboa and correísta candidate Luisa González.

With 100 percent of the votes counted in Ecuador’s presidential elections, the results are both surprising and in line with anticipated outcomes.

Several polls conducted after Villavicencio’s death have suggested the González-Arauz ticket is the candidacy most hurt by the assassination, with some pollsters predicting a six-point drop within three days of the murder.

At around 6:20 p.m. on August 9, Fernando Villavicencio, the presidential candidate for the Movimiento Construye Ecuador alliance, was assassinated as he was leaving a campaign event in Quito.