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The right Noboa had defeated the left candidate Luisa Gonzalez in view of the election fraud.
Daniel Noboa, Ecuador’s youngest president and inheritance of a prominent assets of banana export, was sworn in at his first full term and promised to intensify the struggle of his government against mighty drug gangs and at the same time revive the fighting economy.
In a ceremony in the National Assembly in Quito on Saturday, the right president was sworn in by the president of the meeting Niels Olsen Peet, who lay over his shoulders’ sash over his shoulders before the two increased their hands in a symbolic gesture of the unit.
The 37-year-old Noboa won the elections in April and secured a new term after he had completed the last 18 months of the term of office of his predecessor and defeated the left candidate Luisa Gonzalez despite her allegations for election fraud.
Noboa spoke to the legislators, promised to strongly reduce violent crime into a cornerstone of his administration.
“The progressive reduction of the murders will be a non -negotiable goal,” said Noboa. “We will keep our struggle against drug trafficking, confiscate illegal weapons, ammunition and explosives and exercise greater control in the ports of the country.”
Ecuador, once regarded as one of the more stable countries in the region, has had a strong increase in violence with drug cartels in recent years, including the powerful from Mexico, the porous boundaries and weak institutions to expand their influence.
Noboa reacted with a militarized approach, used the armed forces on the streets and tightened security in important infrastructure centers.
The President’s security strategy has drawn comparisons with El Salvador controversial anti-gang measures that were praised by some of the reduction in crimes, which have been condemned by right-wing groups for mass liability and presumed abuse.
Noboa quoted El Salvador as well as the United States and Israel as a strategic partner in Ecuador’s security overexposure.
His government has also hired Erik Prince, founder of the private military entrepreneur Blackwater, to advise the Ecuadorian security forces, a step that triggered alarm among the opposition politicians and human rights providers who warned of crawling militarization and lack of supervision.
While Noboa prompted a decline in the violence to death by 15 percent in 2024, the state figures in the first four months of the 2025 -year -old murders show by 58 percent compared to the same period last year. 3,094 deaths.