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#Ecuador: Caudillo Correa nowhere for now. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

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#Ecuador: Caudillo Correa nowhere for now. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/world/americas/ecuador-election-president.html

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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bashler. Ecuador. A presidential election.

0:40.8

And an outcome that was unpredictable months ago. The violence dominates the story of Ecuador.

0:47.2

Narco-terrorism violence and worse. Mary Anastasia Grady is the America's columnist and

0:52.8

the editor for the Wall Street Journal editorial board. Mary, a very good evening to a young man.

0:58.1

The son of a prosperous man is now the president of Ecuador. How did that happen, Mary? He

1:03.7

seems as if he wants to restore the economy and not follow his colleagues to the left of center.

1:11.8

Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, Daniel and Noboa ran for president along with

1:18.8

many other people. I mean, there was a quite large field. And of course, he did not get 50%

1:25.8

of the vote. So he had to go into a second round and he ran against Lisa Gonzalez, who

1:32.5

is a lawyer. So she's, you know, professionally trained, but she was widely seen as a puppet

1:39.8

for Rafael Correa, who remains a widely dreaded former president. He stayed in office for 10

1:52.0

years. So he was elected. Then he changed the constitution. And then once there was a new

1:57.1

constitution, he stayed for two more terms. So it was a total of 10 years. And, you know, he had a

2:04.2

lot of the instincts of Hugo Chavez and other authoritarians in the region. So, you know,

2:10.9

Ecuadorans thought they might never get rid of him. And he, they did get rid of him in 2017.

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