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Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa, running for re-election, waves after accompanying his running mate, Maria Jose Pinto, to cast her ballot during the presidential elections in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Carlos Noriega)

Ecuador will seek foreign military aid to combat drug cartels as violence surges

The government of Ecuador has taken another step in its effort to gain help from foreign military forces to combat drug cartels and various organized crime groups.
 
An Indigenous woman and her daughter walk past old election campaign murals ahead of the presidential run-off election in Cochapamba, Ecuador, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

In Ecuador’s highlands, an Indigenous community faces choice between 2 candidates they don’t trust

 
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa, center, campaigns for reelection in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. The election is set for Feb. 9. (AP Photo/Cesar Munoz)

Who is Daniel Noboa? The conservative millionaire president seeking reelection in Ecuador

 
Luisa Gonzalez, presidential candidate for the Citizen Revolution Movement, campaigns in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. The election is set for Feb. 9. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Who is Luisa González? The leftist politician who is again vying for Ecuador’s presidency

 
Luisa Gonzalez, presidential candidate for the Citizen Revolution Movement, waves after voting in a presidential election in Canuto, Ecuador, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jairo Mendoza)

Ecuador’s conservative incumbent and a leftist lawyer are leading early presidential voting results

 

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Ecuador’s remaining two candidates for the Presidency will head for a run-off in April. Both are chasing the indigenous vote in communities like Cochapamba. (AP video shot by Cesar Olmos)
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A supporter holds life size cutouts of President Daniel Noboa, as she waits for the start of a campaign rally for Noboa's reelection, in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. Ecuadorians head to the polls on Feb. 9 to elect a new president. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ecuadorian voters, many of them crime victims, head to the polls for presidential election

 
FILE - Former Ecuador President Rafael Correa gestures during an interview with Associated Press in Brussels, Sept. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

US hits former Ecuador leaders with visa bans over corruption

 
Presidential candidate Daniel Noboa, of the National Democratic Action Alliance political party, speaks in Olon, Ecuador, after results show him ahead in a snap presidential runoff on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Ecuador’s youngest elected president faces a practically impossible task

 
Presidential candidate Daniel Noboa speaks in Olon, Ecuador, after results show him ahead in a snap presidential runoff on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. At left is his wife Lavinia Valbonesi. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Daniel Noboa, heir to banana fortune, wins Ecuador’s presidential runoff election

 
A soldier guards as supporters of presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez, of the Citizen's Revolutionary Movement, attend a campaign rally in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ecuadorians are picking a new president, but their demands for safety will be hard to meet

 
FILE - A voter carries the ballot for a referendum on whether the country should ban oil operations in the Amazons during in a snap election in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. In a historic decision, Ecuadorians voted on Sunday against the oil drilling of Yasuni National Park, which is a protected area in the Amazon that's home to two uncontacted tribes and serves as a biodiversity hotspot. (AP Photo/Carlos Noriega, File)

Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area

 
Supporters of Jan Topic, presidential candidate for the Country Without Fear Coalition, cheer during a campaign event ahead of snap elections set for Aug. 20, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Ecuadorians vote Sunday for president after a campaign dominated by demands for safety

 
FILE - A soldier monitors vehicle traffic on the National Unity Bridge that connects the town of Duran with the Guayaquil, Ecuador, July 20, 2023. Guayaquil is the epicenter of violence. About a third of this year’s violent deaths took place in what is Ecuador’s second-largest city and home to the main commercial port, as well as a large prison complex. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)

Political leader in Ecuador is killed less than a week after presidential candidate’s assassination

 
Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio waves an Ecuador national flag during a campaign event at a school minutes before he was shot to death outside the same school in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 (API via AP)

Slain Ecuador candidate fearlessly took on drug cartels and corruption