Heavy security deployed in Guayalquil as president accompanies wife to vote

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa visits a polling station in the Nueva Prosperina sector, Northwest Guayaquil, to accompany his wife, Lavinia Valbonesi, as she casts her ballot in the crucial constitutional referendum. The presidential couple was escorted by a massive security detail consisting of members of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces and National Police, underscoring the strict measures implemented amid the declared "internal armed conflict" against organized crime. IMAGES