Ecuadorean presidential candidate race has strong support from opposition forces

Guillermo Lasso barely survived the first round of Ecuador’s presidential election Feb. 19, as ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno came within a hair of winning outright. But now that the opposition has rallied around Lasso, a former banker, and the April 2 runoff looks like Moreno’s to lose. Quito-based Cedatos, which produces one of the more…