Some Ecuadoran officials worry that the violence could escalate in the days ahead or even as voters head to the polls Sunday.
and moving to rule by decree in a last-ditch effort to avoid impeachment. Lasso, one of the few remaining conservative leaders in the region, was the first Ecuadoran president to apply a constitutional move known as a muerte cruzada — roughly, “mutual death.” The device allows the president to dissolve the legislature, but at the price of going before the electorate for his political fate to be decided.by a hit man while leaving a campaign rally in northern Quito.
“The candidates basically end up offering an iron fist without a clear strategy other than the presence of the armed forces in the street,” said Fernando Carrión, a political scientist at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Ecuador.The next president will have very little time to introduce any solutions to the insecurity — only the 18 months remaining of Lasso’s term.
“We have a plan,” Salinas said. “We are mobilizing everything we have to be able to guarantee that the elections will be peaceful.”
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