Ecuador vote ushers in a new era by Pablo Jaramillo Viteri and Chris Kraul

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Ecuador vote ushers in a new era
Writer: Pablo Jaramillo Viteri and Chris Kraul
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Questions

1. Who was the President of Ecuador?
2. Who is Lenin Moreno?
3. Who was a U.N. delegate for the disabled?
4. When will Ecuador have a decisive runoff election?
5. Who are the top 3 candidates?
6. Who is a member of the national congress?
7. Who is a former bank chairman?
8. Who was elected to 3 presidential terms?
9. Who attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received a doctorate in economics?
10. Who built plenty of schools, dams and hospitals?
11. What is your opinion on President Correa’s close ties with late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez?
12. What is your opinion on President Correa’s close ties with Bolivian President Eva Morales?
13. How did President Correa pay for the schools, dams and hospitals?
14. What are 3 things President Correa did wrong in his Presidencies?
15. What is the name of one of the world’s most biodiverse reserves?
16. What did the National Assembly approve in December 2015?
17. What percentage of Ecuadorians don’t trust President Correa?
18. Who said, “Perhaps in the past 10 years, a different style was needed to push through the reforms the country needed, but today what is needed is consensus, dialogue with he business community, the news media and social groups for the benefit of the country”?
19. How many people benefited from Moreno’s program that disabled Ecuadorians were given medical and financial support?
20. Who ran for president in 2013?
21. Who represents the CREO party?
22. Who is the mayor of Guayaquil?
23. Who is a close ally of Guayaquil’s mayor?
24. What odes this sentence mean to you?  “Whoever wins will inherit an economy barely growing.”
25. What does this sentence mean to you?  “Depressed government oil revenues and a mountain of debt.”
26. “Much of it owed to China which has extended loans to the Correa government in exchange for deliveries of oil,” what does this sentence mean to you?