This is CBSI on the World, The New World Report.

I'm John Batson with my good colleague, Gavin Ellis, professor at the U.S. Army War College.

We moved from Central America to a vital election of a small, troubled state

ripped by narco-terrorism and outside influences.

They chiefly were thinking of the People's Republic of China, its Belt and Road initiative,

its money-laden influencers, and a men named Correa.

There's an election on Sunday, putting the candidates from the last special election to fill an empty presidential seat.

The same players, Naboa and Gonzalez, but they represent different approaches to Ecuador's future.

Professor, Naboa, Daniel Naboah, elected as a young man, very young, the son of a well-to-do exporter,

visited Mara Lago recently, surprising everyone with his wife, graciously received, appeared that

the U.S. is endorsing his candidacy.

Who is, who stands to gain from Naboa losing?

Let me put it that way.

Who stands to gain from him winning and how?

Well, John, of course, the key thing, Ecuador is at a pivotal moment.

Ecuador, the victory of Daniel

Noboa had itself come after the important political transition, but the prospect in the second

round of Ecuador's election, which will occur this Sunday, April 13th, in which Daniel Naboa and his principal rival,

Louisa Gonzalez, are almost in a tie. It actually shows that Luisa Gonzalez is just a little

bit ahead. There is a leftist indigenous leader, Linus Issa, which in the first round,

pulled about 5%. It looks like a lot of his support will go to Louisa Gonzalez. But really, the prospect of Louisa Gonzalez winning with

a Citizen Revolution Party, Luis's political mentor is the former president, anti-US player Rafael Correa. And so the prospect is not only,

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