Daniel Noboa elected Ecuador’s youngest president

Daniel Noboa, a political outsider and the owner of a banana global empire, is faced with the Herculean task of reducing a terrifying, drug-driven crime problem within a shortened 18 months in office in Ecuador. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Tibisay Zea.

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