Noboa, a blow to the radical left

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 28/04/2025

Businessman Daniel Roy Gilchrist Noboa Azin won Ecuador's presidential election by a landslide, a victory that devastated leftist groups in the hemisphere, especially governments and leaders affiliated with the powerful Sao Paulo Forum, the Puebla Group, and the 21st Century Socialism bloc.

There they are, emaciated, humiliated, with faces like a wake, Lula da Silva, Maduro, Daniel Ortega, Cristina Kirchner, López Obrador, Claudia Scheinbaum and the Bolivians Luis Arce and Evo Morales.

Maduro summed up the leftist tantrum by stating that "there was a scandalous, rotten fraud, financed by imperialism," calling Noboa's supporters "gangsters and scoundrels." This is said by none other than the crook or swindler who lost the election to Ambassador Edmundo González Urrutia, who won with 67% of the vote, but ignored his defeat and remains entrenched in the Miraflores Palace.

And, as could not be missed, because he is always there, scheming, denigrating, slandering, Evo Morales, a cunning individual, who joined in the hoax by claiming, without any evidence, that "there was fraud," despite the fact that observer missions from the OAS and the European Union monitored the process and endorsed the result.

The son of the richest farmer in his country, a graduate in business administration from Harvard Kennedy School and George Washington University, he is of presidential lineage. Diego Noboa y Arteta, in fact, served as head of state for two months and 18 days, from December 8, 1850, to February 26, 1851. Gustavo Noboa y Bejarano, rector of the Catholic University of Guayaquil, governor of Guayas, and vice president under Jamil Mahuad, governed from January 22, 2000, to January 15, 2003, by decision of the Armed Forces and the National Assembly, after Mahuad was overthrown by the military.

His own father, millionaire Álvaro Noboa Pontón, was a presidential candidate five times.

The young politician was a member of the Legislative Assembly from 2021 to 2023, the year in which President Guillermo Lasso, applying Article 148 of the Fundamental Charter, decreed the so-called "crusade death," resigning from office, dissolving Parliament, and calling elections, which Noboa won to complete Lasso's 18-month term.

In these new elections, Correista Luisa González obtained 32.5% of the vote in the first round and Noboa 22.5%. However, in the second round, the numbers reversed: Noboa won with 56% and her opponent with 44%; a difference of twelve points.

His downfall was his announcement that he would hire Rafael Correa as an advisor, an offer that Ecuadorians interpreted as meaning he would be the true power behind the scenes.

Likewise, in several interventions he refused to admit that Maduro was a dictator and at the same time he praised the corrupt Argentine leader, Cristina Kirchner, López Obrador and Lula, in addition to quoting phrases from the Cuban guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara in the demonstrations.

An explosive cocktail of blunders that derailed her, while Noboa preached in favor of more investment to overcome the economic crisis and pledged to fight rising crime.

Therefore, the reelected president's greatest challenge is security, given that Ecuador has the highest number of homicides and violence in the hemisphere. Added to this is the very serious prison situation, as evidenced by the fact that from 2021 to 2024, 1,500 inmates were murdered in overcrowded penitentiary centers and that criminal gangs control part of the country.

Noboa is a dynamic and explosive politician. He demonstrated this by disavowing his vice president, Verónica Abad, and ordering military and police forces to storm the Mexican embassy in Quito to drag out Jorge Bless, Rafael Correa's former vice president. Bless, whom the Mexican government had improperly granted political asylum after being sentenced for receiving bribes from Odebrecht, was handcuffed.

Peru and Ecuador are one nation, sister peoples, united by 1,529 kilometers of common border and by the 1998 Brasilia Agreements, which include the Trade and Navigation and Border Integration Treaties. Without a doubt, with Noboa, Peruvians and Ecuadorians will advance along this path of bilateral integration.

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