Pro-foreign investment Lasso wins Ecuador presidential election

Guillermo Lasso, a 66-year-old conservative former banker, has won Ecuador’s presidential election with 52.5% of the vote, beating out Andrés Arauz, a 36-year-old leftist handpicked by former President Rafael Correa. While neither candidate had declared himself anti-mining, Lasso has vowed...

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