Ecuador in uncharted waters after president's desperate gambit

Quito, May 18 (EFE).- A day after President Guillermo Lasso shocked Ecuadorians by dissolving the legislature, enacting rule-by-decree, and calling for elections half-way through his term, the country sought to make sense of the new political landscape. The right-wing billionaire’s decision to invoke a legal mechanism known as “muerte cruzada” (mutual death) put an end …

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