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Ecuador heads to the polls for presidential election led by millionaire president and leftist lawyer

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President Daniel Noboa and Luis González are the clear front-runners among the pool of 16 candidates.

All promised voters to reduce the widespread crime that pushed their lives into an unnerving new normal four years ago .

The spike in violence across the South American country is tied to the trafficking of cocaine produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru .