Leftist Leaders Are Failing Their Promises Across Latin America
57 minutes ago · In Ecuador, Daniel Noboa has failed to replicate Bukele’s success at squashing gang violence and is at risk of losing re-election to a more liberal candidate as a result.
Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos - The New Yorker
Jun 17, 2024 · After several hours of closed-door meetings with security officials, Daniel Noboa, the recently elected President of Ecuador, sat in a darkened office of the Presidential palace—an elegant...
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Apr 10, 2024 · Noboa, 36, rose to Ecuador’s presidency in a political finger snap. His predecessor, Guillermo Lasso, resigned and called for early elections amid a constitutional crisis in May last year.
Ecuador’s chaotic turn to drug and narco violence, explained - Vox
Jan 11, 2024 · Noboa has been vocal about his admiration of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, pledging last week to build massive prisons modeled after Bukele’s.
Ecuador Conflict: Why Bukele-Like Hard-Line Security Policies …
Mar 13, 2024 · Many observers have interpreted Noboa’s promise as a sign he might emulate the iron-fisted security policies implemented by President Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. Those have included mass...
Ecuador’s president displays strongman credentials with Mexico …
Apr 9, 2024 · Noboa has acknowledged comparisons to Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s strongman who won re-election in February on a wave of support for his own crackdown on criminal gangs.
Ecuador’s failed attempt to follow El Salvador’s model for prisons ...
Feb 24, 2024 · ECUADOR. Ecuador’s failed attempt to follow El Salvador’s model for prisons: Escapes and gang control continue. EL PAÍS visited one of the penitentiaries that President Daniel Noboa is trying...
Prison ships and ‘Bukele model’ jails in Ecuador, a security plan ...
Jan 4, 2024 · President Daniel Noboa made a campaign promise to purchase prison ships to house the leaders of the gangs that operate in the country’s penitentiaries 80 miles off Ecuador’s Pacific coast....
El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador: Why mass incarceration and mano …
Jun 20, 2024 · El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claims to have found the solution to the region’s criminal enterprise problem in a massive prison and anti-gang initiative that has dramatically reduced the...
From drug routes to Bukele’s influence: Keys to the security crisis …
Jan 10, 2024 · President Noboa, a 36-year-old neoliberal politician, announced a plan called Phoenix, but did not reveal any more details. Amid the crisis in Ecuador, attention has turned to Nayib Bukele,...