This is CBS, I on the World. I'm John Bachelor, the New World Report with my colleague Professor

Avanellis of the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. Ecuador, a troubled land since at least the last election when there was assassination of a major

candidate, violence throughout the land assassinations of mayors along the coastline. The fact of the

coast line. The fact of the matter is the people of Ecuador are voting with their feet.

It is the number two nation origin in the Americas for the Darien gap in the passageway into America.

Number one is Venezuela, which as the professor says, is on a knife's edge as to whether the

outflow will begin again.

Ecuador, however, is no knife edge right now. The new president in the boa was elected to fill

the unfinished term of the previous president who left his post in frustration, exhaustion, perhaps fear. This is a crime-ridden

state. As I understand from the professor's guidance over these last months, it's

between the Colombian producers of the cocaine

and everybody else, including the lawlessness

of the Andean chain.

However, there is a new election scheduled for 2025 and the opponents include the present

young president who campaigned with a bulletproof vest, as I recall,

Nabeoa, and the challenger, a young woman

named Louisa Gonzales, I believe,

who is, everybody understands the pick

of a man named Korea.

You have to know about Korea and his background to understand

the scale of threat the people of Ecuador are struggling with.

Professor, who is Korea? Who is he then? Who is he now? struggling with

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