Who is Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador reelected this Sunday

With 18 million inhabitants, Ecuador has a homicide rate of 38 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. Professor Flavia Loss, coordinator of FESPSP’s International Relations course, draws a parallel with Brazil, which has a population of 216 million: ” Our homicide rate is 22 per 100,000 inhabitants. Ecuador is a much lower country, with a much lower population and with a higher than ours, so you can see the size of the severity of this problem. ”

Along with the violence of drug trafficking, there was a resurgence of political violence – in one year 30 mayors were murdered in Ecuador. Last month, two mayors were murdered. This data shows the mixture between the struggle of drug trafficking and political violence, the two processes are accompanied.
Leonardo Trevisan, Professor of International Relations at ESPM

This year’s election was starred by the same politicians of the 2023 presidential race. Amid an impeachment process, the president of the time, Guilleme Lasso, dissolved the National Assembly and called on early elections in the country – which ended with candidate Fernando Villavicencio killed with three shots.

Noboa was declared winner by the electoral agency when he reached 55.88% of the valid votes, while there was more than 90% of the vote accounted for. “Ecuador is changing. Ecuador has chosen a different way,” said the president after the victory.

Luisa González called the Fraudulent election. “Ecuador lives a dictatorship, and today we live the most grotesque fraud in the country’s history,” she told supporters in the capital, Quito. “We will ask for the recount of the votes.”