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Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos | The New Yorker

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Does President Daniel Noboa’s campaign against drug gangs imperil the democracy he claims to defend?

Save this story Save this story Listen to this article. After several hours of closed-door meetings with security officials, Daniel Noboa, the recently elected President of Ecuador, sat in a darkened office of the Presidential palace—an elegant eighteenth-century building, known as Carondelet, that overlooks the old center of Quito. When I arrived for our first meeting, Noboa was at a wide, empty desk, staring intently at his phone. Several minutes passed in silence before he looked up, mumbling an apology. We shook hands, and I asked how he was doing. “Surviving,” he said. He didn’t mean this

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