El país andino, un gran promulgador del libre comercio pero que ha evitado involucrarse en temas de diplomacia internacional, ha emergido sorprendentemente como un líder y promotor de la integración económica entre América Latina y la región de Asía Pacífico.
Ecuadorians took to the polls to vote on a referendum that proposed to limit public officials to two terms limits. The proposal was a not-so-subtle effort to ban former President Rafael Correa from ever running for office again.
Following a surprising result on Sunday, Fabricio Alvarado and Carlos Alvarado will face off in a run-off election on April 1.
The Andean country, a proponent of free trade but often a reluctant diplomatic leader, has taken a surprising outsized role in furthering economic integration between Latin America and the Asia Pacific region.
As President Trump and his administration push into their second year of government, the U.S.’s place in the world seems diminished.
As China continues to make diplomatic and economic inroads throughout the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. needs to act pragmatically to counter Chinese influence and maintain its own.
By the time 2018 draws to a close, three quarters of Latin Americans will have elected a new president. Though often taken for granted, the commissions responsible for ensuring free and fair elections will play a critical role in regional politics this year.
In a country long known as one of Latin America’s most stable democracies, a socially conservative outsider is leading polls ahead of Sunday’s first-round vote.
Crime and violence in the Northern Triangle is a regional issue that requires a collective response to the structural factors driving it: weak state capacity, corruption within police forces and the judiciary, and insufficient data. Deporting refugees back to the region doesn’t help.
Ecuador still has a long way to go to recover from a polarizing ten years under populist Rafael Correa, but the first eight months of Lenín Moreno’s presidency have re-confirmed the importance of succession and regularly held elections.
