Luisa will win the second round. Noboa won with 52 vs 48% last time. His year and a half of government has been a disaster, he’s lost votes and Luisa has only gone up.

Over reliance on hydro? That’s really not the full story. Ecuador has back up diesel/gas generators for such possibilities of drought but unfortunately 8 years of right wing government left the backups rusty and inoperable. Electric demand has grown in the last 8 years but there’s been zero investment in new capacity.

We had 3 months of upto 14 hour blackouts daily and barely a mention in foreign press, but Cuba had a day without electricity and lots of coverage