Ecuador elects its new president for the next 15 months, and from New York City, nearly 550,000 Ecuadorians exercised their right to vote on Sunday.
Our reporter Camila Montenegro, from Univision 41, went to the Mott Haven Educational school, in the Bronx, which lent its facilities as a voting center. From there she confirmed that Ecuadorians had until 7:00 at night to go to the polls in the Big Apple.
In addition to electing a new president, a second-round contest between candidates Luisa González and Daniel Noboa, voters also selected a vice president and assembly members, both national and foreign representatives.
Election day passed normally in New York City. After the polls close, all that remains is to wait for the vote count and meet the new president of Ecuador.
The electoral campaign was marred by the murder of a candidate
Ecuador elects this Sunday its first female president or the youngest president in history in a runoff that is expected to be close and tense after the murder of a candidate in the midst of the drug onslaught.
Our reporter Johanna Cañizares, special envoy in Ecuador, detailed that both presidential candidates exercised their right to vote, wearing a bulletproof vest and guarded by soldiers.
Luisa González, bishop of former socialist president Rafael Correa, and Daniel Noboa, son of one of the richest men in the country, lowered the curtain on an electoral campaign marked by bulletproof vests, guards with rifles and the unanimous clamor to stop the violence.
In recent years, Ecuador has become a center of operations for drug cartels with international tentacles that impose a regime of terror and leave thousands dead, some dismembered or hanging from bridges.
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