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Ecuador at War: Curfews, U.S. Boots on the Ground, and a Landmark Arrest—But Can Military Force Fix What Institutions Failed to Build?
President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, bullet-proof-vested and under the protection of the presidential guard in Quito. Credit: Santiago Arcos/Reuters

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Ecuador at War: Curfews, U.S. Boots on the Ground, and a Landmark Arrest—But Can Military Force Fix What Institutions Failed to Build?

75,000 troops. A live curfew. U.S. boots on the ground. And the mastermind of a presidential assassination now in a prison cell. Ecuador is at war—but the hardest question isn’t whether Noboa can win battles. It’s whether military force can fix what decades of institutional failure built

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