Ecuadorians voting in a referendum this weekend gave President Daniel Noboa new powers to crack down on increasingly violent drug gangs. But some remain wary that their president’s zeal to combat drug lords might endanger the country’s democratic institutions, as analyst Sebastian Hurtado explains to The World’s host Marco Werman.
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