Ecuadorean election officials confirmed Tuesday that banana tycoon Alvaro Noboa was the top vote getter in Oct. 15 elections and will face leftist Rafael Correa next month in a presidential runoff. The head of Ecuador’s electoral commission, Xavier Cazar, told reporters that with 99.87 percent of the paper ballots counted, 55-year-old Noboa, Ecuador’s wealthiest man, led all candidates with 27 percent. Correa, 43, a U.S.-trained economist running on an antiestablishment ticket, came in second in the field of 13 candidates with 23 percent. Full Story
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