Hello, I'm Ione Wells, the BBC's South America correspondent, and this is the interview from the BBC World Service, the best conversations coming out of the BBC, people shaping our world from all over the world.

I will come back to Russia. I will participate in the elections.

There's an increase in violence according to the coca crop. There is no place in the world where

women are equal. I will give away the vast majority of my money. It's my full-time focus for the rest of

my life. For this interview, I met Daniel Naboa, the president of Ecuador at the presidential

palace in Quito. You're going to hear about violence, about drug gangs and

about immigration and the close-run race for the presidency of Ecuador. Daniel Naboa came to power

in 23, in a presidential campaign steeped in violence that saw one candidate assassinated. Since then,

he's been defined by his tough military crackdown on the violent gangs, locked

in a battle to control lucrative drug routes.

Now, Ecuador's president wants US and European armies to back him in his war on crime

and drugs.

It's a transnational crime and we need international help to fight it here.

Here's the port where the drug exits. 70% of the world's

cocaine exits via Ecuador, and we need the help of international forces. Ecuadorians now number

among the top nationalities crossing into North America, with migrants citing violence and

chronic unemployment as reasons for leaving. But Mr. Naboa is promising

to revitalise the economy in a second term, bringing inflation down and increasing opportunities.

But voters are divided. The first round presidential contest failed to produce an outright winner

between him and his rival left-wing challenger, Louisa Gonzalez. How he fares in the upcoming election will

show whether the people of Ecuador believe he can deliver and also whether they agree with his

support for U.S. President Donald Trump. Welcome to the interview on the BBC World Service with

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