Tag: Luisa Gonzalez

• Thursday, April 10th 2025 - 19:05 UTC

  Ecuador closing campaigns ahead of Sunday's runoff

  

  Ecuador's presidential contenders, the incumbent Daniel Noboa and challenger Luisa González, are rounding up their campaigns ahead of Sunday's runoff, which will be a rematch of the Oct. 15, 2023, elections, where the banana businessman was elected to fulfill the departing Guillermo Lasso's term.

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• Friday, March 28th 2025 - 19:26 UTC

  Ecuadorean President's family linked to cocaine shipments to Europe

  

  The banana producing and trading firm belonging to Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa's family has been linked to cocaine exporting to Europe, hidden in fruit shipments from the port of Guayaquil. Journalist Andrés Durán -known locally as “The Chochologist”- has fled the country due to death threats. He claims to have evidence against Noboa Trading.

• Monday, February 10th 2025 - 10:40 UTC

  Ecuador: Opposition candidate celebrates “victory” after qualifying for runoff

  

  Ecuadorean opposition candidate Luisa Gonzalez, a protégé of former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017), celebrated victory Sunday. She and the incumbent Daniel Noboa were on the brink of being confirmed as having qualified for April 13's runoff after neither clinched a decisive 50% majority.

• Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 09:42 UTC

  Runoff seems inevitable after Sunday's elections in Ecuador

  

  A runoff scheduled for April 13 seems inevitable in Ecuador after this coming Sunday's elections. Pollsters do not seem to agree on the exact figures but all of them foresee that incumbent President Daniel Noboa and his leftwing challenger Luisa González would finish among the two top contenders with neither clinching a decisive majority of at least 50%.

• Sunday, October 15th 2023 - 13:38 UTC

  Ecuador chooses new president to complete Lasso's term

  

  Arguably one of the most violent countries in the world, Ecuador will pick its next President on Sunday in a runoff between Lawyer Luisa González and businessman Daniel Noboa.

• Monday, October 2nd 2023 - 09:28 UTC

  Candidates outline their plans ahead of Ecuador's presidential runoff

  

  Luisa Gonzalez and Daniel Noboa on Sunday outlined their plans ahead of the October 15 runoff election to determine who will be Ecuador's next president.

• Monday, August 21st 2023 - 11:30 UTC

  Elections in Ecuador: González and Noboa advance to runoff

  

  Luisa González of former President Rafel Correa's Revolucion Ciudadana (RC) was the most-voted candidate in Sunday's elections in Ecuador marred by last week's murder of Movimiento Construye's (MC) hopeful Fernando Villavicencio.