This is CBS, I On the World. I'm John Batchelor. The New World Report with Professor Aben Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. The Andean chain. We begin with Ecuador, a story that is positive since the election of a young man named Naboa, who appeared dressed before the vote in Mar-a-Lago.

So he is associated with the United States of America right now, not historically.

However, there is an happiness in Ecuador because the violence continues.

The violence is narco-terror, yes, but it's also a resistance to

Naboah, and the indigenous people resist the central government. In fact, there have been

incidents with the indigenous people. So I come to the professor on the most recent news

we have that Ecuador is rejecting the idea of U.S. assistance in the terms of a foreign base, a U.S. base in Ecuador.

Professor, we've not spoken at length about President Naboha since he took office.

Is he considered successful so far by the measure of narco terror being trimmed back?

He is considered successful to a degree, John, but clearly this Sunday's vote on four very important issues, including the military bases exposed, the fact that both on economic issues as well as certainly on security issues,

he has limitations and weaknesses.

It's important to recall that one of the reasons that he was able to come to power over his

opponent, a woman by the name of Luisa Gonzalez, who is seen as is too closely tied with

the leftist, Raphael Correa, was the sense that Ecuador has been experiencing a security crisis.

A lot of that crisis comes from Colombian drugs coming out through the Ecuadorian coast,

facilitated by Mexican groups like the Sinaloa cartel in Helixco, Neva Generation,

who have essentially empowered local gangs like the Choneros and the Lobos and others to get those drugs out.

That is a dramatically escalated violent in Ecuador.

The Nibuah government, a center-right government working closely with the United States, has responded with states of emergency, with military deployments, with attempts to control the prisons.

It has worked to some degree.

But one of the things that was discussed in this past Sunday's referendum was bringing the foreign powers, basically changing the constitution that the previous leftist Korea government had himself changed.

Basically, the Korea government back in 2009 had kicked the United States out,

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