President Daniel Noboa hopes to secure a full four-year term but faces concerns over high crime and economic issues.

Ecuador's dueling presidential hopefuls made a last-ditch pitch to late-deciding voters Thursday, wrapping a bitter campaign dominated by surging cartel violence and economic crisis.

People on the streets of Ecuador can rattle off the places they have encountered criminals. And they can just as easily list what was taken from them in robberies, kidnappings, burglaries and other crimes they have experienced.

With the United States as its main international support in the face of the security crisis, Ecuador will vote this Sunday whether or not to reelect President Daniel Noboa, whose mandate in foreign policy was marked by the assault on the Mexican Embassy,

When he became the youngest president to be elected in Ecuador’s history, Daniel Noboa promised to attack twin crime and fiscal crises with a sense of urgency. His biggest victory, though, may have been with Wall Street.

In Ecuador's presidential election, both top candidates want a second chance. Gonzalez would be Ecuador's first elected woman president.