América Latina & Caribe

8081 readers

16 users here now

[GUARANÍ] Tereg̃uaheporãite / [ES] Bienvenidos / [PT] Bem vindo / [FR] Bienvenue / [NL] Welkom

Everything to do with the USA's own Imperial Backyard. From hispanics to the originary peoples of the americas to the diasporas, South America to Central America, to the Caribbean to North America (yes, we're also there).

Post memes, art, articles, questions, anything you'd like as long as it's about Latin America. Try to tag your posts with the language used, check the tags used above for reference (and don't forget to put some lime and salt to it).

Here's a handy resource to understand some of the many, many colloquialisms we like to use across the region.

"But what about that latin american kid I've met in college who said that all the left has ever done in latin america has been bad?"

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Bipartisanism wins in Ecuador: Noboa and González head to presidential run-off (peoplesdispatch.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

0 comments fedilink hide all child comments

In an unprecedented election, the candidate of the ruling party and the candidate of the Citizen Revolution party monopolized more than 88% of the valid votes, even though there were almost 16 candidates.

Right-wing Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and progressive Luisa González clinched first and second place in the first round of Ecuador’s presidential elections, winning a combined 88% of the valid votes. The two candidates will dispute the Presidency of the Republic on April 13.

According to data from the National Electoral Council, so far, right-wing President Daniel Noboa of the National Democratic Action (ADN) party won 44.29% of the valid votes, while Luisa González, of the Correist Citizen Revolution party, obtained 43.85%. This means that there is more or less a difference of 42,000 votes between the top two candidates out of the more than 10 million people who voted. In third place is the Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza with 5.26% of the Pachakutik party and in fourth place is the right-wing candidate Andrea González with 2.71%. The remaining twelve candidates obtained, individually, less than 1%. Between them, they add up to only 3.89%.

The last time a candidate obtained such a high first-round vote was in 2013, when then-president Rafael Correa reached 57% (thus winning the presidency in the first round). Banker and future president Guillermo Lasso (2021-2023) had won 23%, and former president Lucio Gutiérrez (2003-2005) won 7% of the valid votes. However, it had never happened before that the leading candidates obtained such a high and, at the same time, similar vote share.

Full Article

no comments (yet)

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

there doesn't seem to be anything here