Source: International Business Times
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 07, 2025, shows Ecuador's leftist presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez speaking during a campaign event with women in Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 7, 2025, and Ecuador's President and presidential candidate Daniel Noboa delivering a speech during a campaign rally ahead of the presidential runoff, in Riobamba, central Ecuador, on April 3, 2025. AFP Ecuadorans go to the polls on Sunday under the shadow of surging drug violence and a troubling explosion in the number of local gangs and mafias. A flood of cocaine from Colombia and Peru through Ecuadoran ports has drawn a who's who of mafias from Albania to Italy to Mexico to this once-safe Andean nation.
