Only hours after announcing that Vice Presidential candidate Andrea González Náder would pick up the baton from the assassinated Fernando Villavicencio, Ecuador s Movimiento Construye recanted Sunday and picked journalist Christian Zurita to top the ticket for the Aug. 20 elections. Náder thus returned to her original slot, it was explained in Quito.
A new heavy-handed law against immigrants approved by the governor, who is running in the Republican Party’s presidential primaries is causing an exodus of undocumented immigrants from agricultural areas. This is also creating labor shortages in other crucial sectors, such as tourism and construction