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Daniel Noboa

Daniel Noboa

-50

Net harmfulFormula-derived score

The through-line is the 9 January 2024 internal-armed-conflict decree after a prison break and a live TV-studio seizure, then repeated emergencies the Constitutional Court said were not substantiated as an armed conflict. A living ruler is scored on those instruments, not as a Bukele copy. The largest negative contribution to the formula-derived score is “Noboa declares an internal armed conflict after a prison break and TV-studio seizure” (2024).

Top harm

Noboa declares an internal armed conflict after a prison break and TV-studio seizure

−50 pts

ADN militarised security presidencyinternal-armed-conflict decreereferendum-led public-force expansion treated as compatible with Court pushback

Impact

Biggest harms and offsets: signed contributions to the formula-derived score, ranked by size.

Biggest harms

Lowers the score
Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The heaviest documented costs sit on the 9 January 2024 internal-armed-conflict decree and the emergency cycle, not on a personality adjective.

First, the decree. After Fito escaped and gunmen seized a TV studio live, Noboa declared an internal armed conflict, designated 22 groups as terrorists, and ordered the military to neutralize them (Reuters, 10 January 2024 (opens in a new tab)). The Constitutional Court later said the armed-conflict justification was not substantiated and still left emergency measures in effect. Store both.

Second, the referendum. On 21 April 2024 voters approved nine security questions, including armed-forces public-security roles and extradition, and rejected two economic ones.

Third, rights-in-ops. IACHR issued precautionary measures on alleged forced disappearances and prison health. Quote IACHR.

The 24 May 2025 full-term oath is a completed transfer after a runoff. Luisa González remains unresolved. Confidence is high on the decree, the referendum, and Reuters, and medium where homicide methodology and disappearance counts sit between IACHR and official silence. This paragraph is an assessment of those paths, not a substitute number.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

Claims against the record, the type of responsibility, and what is disputed.

Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 1 linked fact has no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (2024–2025).

Causal path

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  1. PersonDaniel Noboa
  2. FactNoboa declares an internal armed conflict after a prison break and TV-studio seizure
  3. DriverCivic Space
  4. IndicatorHaving a say in government
−50 pts

Contribution size 1 · Responsibility 0.5 · Fact impact −1 · Driver weight 0.55 · Driver → indicator 0.75 · Indicator importance 0.8 · Deviation factor −3 · Confidence 1

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 24 May 2025 · Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power

    Noboa is sworn for a full four-year term after the April 2025 runoff

  2. 21 April 2024 · Noboa gang-war presidency

    Voters approve nine Noboa security questions and reject two economic ones

  3. 9 January 2024 · Noboa gang-war presidency

    Noboa declares an internal armed conflict after a prison break and TV-studio seizure
    −50 pts

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

3 of 3 linked facts verified, drawing on 2 distinct sources (2024–2025).

Sources include Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador, Consejo Nacional Electoral of Ecuador.

Sources

  1. 1.Presidency of Ecuador — 9 January 2024 internal-armed-conflict decree neighbourhoodPresidency of the Republic of Ecuador
  2. 2.CNE Ecuador — 21 April 2024 referendum result neighbourhoodConsejo Nacional Electoral of Ecuador

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 2

Expert analysis

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Identity and office

Daniel Noboa has been president of Ecuador since 23 November 2023 and in a full term since 24 May 2025. As of September 2026 he remains president. He does not sit as the Constitutional Court.

He is not a Bukele saint. On 8–9 January 2024 Fito escaped and gunmen seized TC Televisión in Guayaquil during a live broadcast. On 9 January Noboa declared an internal armed conflict and ordered the armed forces to neutralize 22 designated groups. Reuters recorded the same week. Fito remains an unresolved name, not a Person.

The Constitutional Court repeatedly found that he had not substantiated an internal armed conflict and still allowed emergency measures to stand. IACHR later issued precautionary measures on alleged forced disappearances and prison health. Quote those findings.

On 21 April 2024 a referendum approved nine security measures, including a formal armed-forces role in public security and extradition of Ecuadorians, and rejected two economic questions. That is a completed CNE instrument.

A November 2025 referendum rejected constitutional-assembly and foreign-bases questions after an Indigenous strike. That is a later child, not a rebate of 9 January.

2024 blackouts of up to 14 hours sat as a neighbouring energy-administration file. They are not converted here into a unique GDP coefficient.

Documented benefits

The offsets that a commissioned-positive portrait would lead with are real only where dated. High-profile arrests sat. The 24 May 2025 oath after a 55.6 percent runoff is a completed constitutional rotation. Luisa González alleged fraud; international observers expressed confidence while noting campaign inequity. Store both. Nayib Bukele is live. This page does not copy his exception statute.

Contributions and limits of responsibility

He signed the 9 January decree. He called the April 2024 referendum. Sharing a slogan with Bukele is not a reason to hang Salvadoran rows as his.

Causal chain through facts

9 January 2024 strengthens noboa-gang-war-presidency and weakens civic space. 21 April 2024 strengthens the same security file as a popular authorisation. 24 May 2025 strengthens capacity for peaceful transfer. None hang on territorial-revisionism, ukraine-war, or Soviet-scope rows.

What the score does not say

This page does not promise an exact number. Direction on the conflict-decree cluster is negative where rights-in-ops sit, mixed where a referendum authorised military public-security roles. Luisa González, Verónica Abad, Fito, and Guillermo Lasso remain names on this file, not invented biographies.

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