2025-03-05
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It's not unusual for Diana Salazar,
Ecuador's Attorney General, to be followed by unfriendly compatriots.
Her security retinue, a squad of soldiers armed to the teeth and encased in Kevlar,
recently spotted a motorbike tailing her car.
Its driver was the sister of a drug lord whom Ms Salazar is investigating.
She discusses the incident as you might speak of missing the bus.
Such irritations are now routine.
Drug gangs have overwhelmed Ecuador over the past five years,
turning it from a peaceful oasis into mainland Latin America's most violent country.
Ms Salazar is a target because she's investigating links between Ecuador's politicians,
its judges and the transnational crime groups that have caused that change.
On April 13th,
Ecuadorians will choose a new president in a runoff vote between the country's current leader,
Daniel Noboa, and Luisa González,
a leftist lawyer whose mentor is Rafael Correa, a powerful former president.