Daniel Noboa

Uno puede tener todas las discrepancias del mundo con el señor, eh, Paz en Bolivia, pero pues no es este personaje.

Uno puede tener todas las, eh, diferencias, y con ese sí que las tengo con Noboa, que se parece un poquito más a este personaje.

Noboa tiene más algo.

Claro, pero no llega ahí todavía.

Es decir, eh, él está llevando este, esta, digamos, estética y este mensaje al extremo en la democracia.

In fact, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was the former president of Honduras, was pardoned by Trump, so his drug trafficking allies could, you know, retake the presidency in, in Honduras.

Um, the, uh, Daniel Noboa in Ecuador is, is widely known to be tied, um, to narco-trafficking, but he is a huge ally, uh, of Trump.

The right-wing president that took over in Colombia was the attorney for the drug traffickers.

Like, so le- let's, let's dispense with this idea, as, as Rubio used to say in his deba- in his debates, uh, that somehow they're going after the highest rungs of drug trafficking.

I don't share that view as a dual citizen myself.

I think it's pretty clear that if you want to hold higher office, it should make sense, given regional developments, that you should only have one citizenship, which is to say that people like Noboa, people like de la Espriella, would not be eligible for the presidency.

if they were a similar case here in Mexico.

I think it is important, given the threats to sovereignty that obviously exist in this region, the very flagrant attempts to infringe on that sovereignty, that we put in at least some safeguards there to assure that loyalty is to Mexico, not any other country, as some of these other presidents with dual citizenship have clearly shown It confused loyalty, and I think it's worth mentioning as well that we have seen in the United States people like John Fetterman, people like that lawmaker who actually wore his IDF uniform on the floor of Congress, clearly showing a preference for another state.

They're the narcos.

They always have been.

It's the Noboa family with the cocaine and their banana shipments.

It's de la Espriella as the narco-lawyer.

I do.

Daniel Noboa does.

Or is that, should we say allegedly? Anyway, yes.

According to prosecutors, another road, get it, for coke was in export cart.

However, in eight operations in just over two weeks, crews have been removed from the vessels before explosives placed on the boats were detonated.

The new strikes have had the support of Ecuador's far-right president, Daniel Noboa, who in turn has taken an iron-fist approach to gangs, issuing repeated states of emergency and expanding the role of armed forces.

However, the crackdown has eroded human rights and done little to curb violence, while human rights groups and journalists have identified many of the victims of U.S. strikes as innocents.

Those who are suspected of criminal activity, as the US has purported, were in many cases people at the bottom of trafficking networks.

No evidence was provided, nor were arrests made, sparking allegations of human rights violations.

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa praised cooperation with the US, saying the two are, quote, "working to recover Ecuador and the region." Carrie Kahn, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.

A slowdown in oil prices helped to calm Wall Street markets on Friday, and stocks closed out their first winning week since early this month.

The S&P five hundred added half a percent and pulled within seven-tenths of a percent of its all-time high set last month.