“A little more restraint could have been exercised in leaving public finances in a better state,” Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno lamented last week, describing the economic situation he had inherited from former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017). This is the sort of comment customarily directed by incumbent heads of state at their predecessors when they belong to ideologically distinct parties. That Moreno should have expressed his exasperation in this manner publicly is testament to the feud between the two men which has now gone well beyond a change in style, causing growing friction within the ruling left-wing Alianza País (AP).
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