Ecuador’s presidential candidate for the National Democratic Action Party, Daniel Noboa, wearing a bulletproof vest, shows his ballot while voting at a polling station in Olon, Santa Elena province, Ecuador, on October 15, 2023, during the presidential runoff election. Ecuadorians started voting for a new president Sunday in the midst of a drug war and a rash of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate.
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At the age of 35, Ecuador’s president-elect Daniel Noboa is fulfilling the political dreams of his banana tycoon father, who failed five times to win the presidency.
With about 52 percent of the vote, based on a near-complete count, little-known businessman Noboa was on Sunday elected the youngest president-elect in modern Ecuadoran history, edging out socialist rival Luisa Gonzalez.
With a serious air, but tanned and sporty, Noboa…
