02-04-2017 00:00 via yahoo.com

Venezuela crisis casts shadow over Ecuador presidential election

By Alexandra Ulmer and Alexandra ValenciaQUITO (Reuters) - Venezuela's political crisis is looming over Sunday's tight presidential election in Ecuador, where a leftist government aligned with Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro is hoping to prolong its decade-long rule.Ecuador pro-business candidate Guillermo Lasso has doubled down on accusations that government-backed candidate Lenin Moreno would turn the Andean country into Venezuela, alluding to a recent Supreme Court move there t
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