The president of Ecuador marks distances with Bukele's heavy hand: “Our proposal is employment, not security”

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The president of Ecuador marks distances with Bukele's heavy hand: “Our proposal is employment, not security”

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, distanced himself this Friday from his Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele, despite the similarities in the heavy-handed policy to contain crime in both countries. “I don't think that my Government would consider itself to be something similar. Our proposal is employment, not security,” said Noboa, who is in Spain for the third time since he was elected. Ecuador, in a constant state of emergency since Jan…