Daniel Noboa, The youngest president of Latin America and the democratic history of Ecuador, achieved at 37 years to be re-elected for a complete mandate (2025-2029), in which he will continue his “hard hand” policy against crime and liberalization of the Ecuadorian economy.
Noboa, who described as “historical” to victory, He exceeded more than one million votes to his rival, Luisa Gonzálezof the Citizen Revolution Movement, led by former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), although she has not accepted the results and ensures that there has been “fraud.”
With the motto “A new Ecuador” this ‘outsider’ From politics he gave the bell in the extraordinary elections of 2023, and now, with this new triumph, it strengthens the perception that Latin America has taken a turn to young, technocratic and promised leadership, more aligned with the United States and with emphasis on security.
Thus, Noboa, born in MiamI (United States) In 1987, he consecrated today as a politician and ratified the great dream that his father, the magnate of the banana sector and five times presidential candidate Álvaro Noboa, possessing one of the greatest fortunes in the country, of which Daniel is heir is not achieved.
The young entrepreneur belongs to the ‘millennial’ generation (those born between 1980 and 2000) and that makes him a politician and a disruptive president: he speaks little publicly, he prefers to communicate through social networks instead of by the traditional media and has the beginning that the end justifies the media, in certain situations.
His speeches, such as the one proclaimed after knowing the results this Sunday, do not usually last more than five minutes, while his videos on Tik Tok, where he even mocks his political rivals, have been key to bringing him to the presidency.
Unpopular decisions
In his short administration, his pulse has not trembled to make controversial and unpopular decisions, such as the “war” declared to organized crime, a struggle that has been tarnished by complaints of human rights violations against which the president supports state forces.
He also implemented unpopular economic reforms to balance public accounts and, at the external field, ordered the Mexico Embassy to detain the former Correísto President Jorge Glas, who had received asylum by declaring himself persecuted politician for the sentences and processes for corruption that he accumulates since 2017.
The irruption in the embassy caused a serious crisis with Mexico and enhancing him with many leftist governments of the region.
A “lousy enemy”
Noboa has made it clear that he is a “lousy enemy to have.” To his vice president, Verónica Abad, – with which she was enmity- found a way to keep her away from the government until she was suspended. First he sent her to Israel as an ambassador, then the government suspended her from office, which was annulled by justice; and then send it to Türkiye again.
With his ex -wife, Gabriela Goldbaum, THe is also faced by the custody of his firstborn, to the point that she has accused him of exercising vicaria. After the divorce process, Noboa even confronted the Spanish insurer Mapfre for a filtration of banking data.
Noboa is considered central-left, and in his political beginnings he was an admirer of the Brazilian president, Inazio Lula da Silva. But his actions place him in practice closer to the neoliberal right. His adversaries call him “capricious” and accuse him even of “dictatorial attitudes.”
Former President Rafael Correa calls him ‘Caligula’. But Noboa has demonstrated political cunning to apply, without social revolts, measures that staggered other governments, such as VAT rise or the reduction of gasoline subsidies.
Raised between politician
Noboa grew up in a house where politics was breathed everywhere, with his father in permanent search for the presidency and his mother, Annabella Azín, an assemblyman, a function that will now be carried out again after being chosen parliamentary again.
His educational stage passed in prestigious foreign institutions and was focused on family businesses before making the leap to political arena as an assemblyman in 2021.
Being president, his third son, Furio, was born in Miami, the second of his marriage to the ‘influencer’ Lavinia Valbonesi, with whom he shares the taste for sport. In social networks it shows its gym routines and looks recent tattoos of the Phoenix AVE, the same name that has its security program for the country.
He usually dressed youth fashion but in an imposing style, with jeans, shirts, leather jacket and sunglasses, and is not afraid to be white of memes by combining a formal suit with spectacular prada shoes of thick sole, as he did during the ceremony of his first investiture.
