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...“I want to reiterate that the candidate for the presidency is me, Luisa González, and not Rafael Correa,” she said in a debate held ahead of the run-off vote....
...“My main adviser will be Rafael Correa,” she told Telesur, a leftwing news channel funded by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua....
...“None of the options available are good,” Cordero said. “They all bring instability, uncertainty and ungovernability.”...
...Sofía Cordero, a Quito-based political scientist at the Observatory for Political Reforms in Latin America, said “there are no guarantees” for the safety of candidates or voters in Ecuador....
...Ecuador has taken authoritarian turns in the past, most recently during the presidency of socialist Rafael Correa, from 2007-2017, who deployed security forces to quell dissent while taking a permissive...
...Candidates loyal to leftist former president Rafael Correa swept major cities and prefectures including Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city and formerly a conservative stronghold....
...Lasso’s triumph nonetheless shows a clear rejection by voters of Rafael Correa, the country’s former president....
...Lenín Boltaire Moreno, the leftwing protégé of President Rafael Correa, is in touching distance of the 40 per cent needed to avoid a second round run-off in April....
...Mr Correa, a US-educated populist who is legally barred from a further consecutive term, is Ecuador’s most powerful president since the late gun-wielding caudillo, León Febres Cordero in the 1980s....
...Even the last bastion of free and fair (and anti-government) information on TV, the 24-hour news channel Globovision, will be sold this week to businessman Juan Domingo Cordero, a friend of Chávez, giving...
...Ecuador has begun a promised purge of police leadership after disgruntled officers attacked Rafael Correa, the Opec nation’s leftwing president, and held him captive for a day....
...León Febres-Cordero, a former president whose nickname is “the owner of the country”, leads the Social Christians, one of Ecuador's most powerful political parties, from the western port....
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