#Noboa has said #Ecuador will not receive deported migrants of other nationalities but that it will always welcome citizens, & he criticized Venezuela's president for briefly rejecting flights of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States.

Noboa has also announced a "strategic alliance" w/ #ErikPrince - a prominent #Trump supporter & founder of private #military firm #Blackwater - to take on crime & narcoterrorism in the country of 17 million.

#Trump also met w/ #Ecuador’s Pres Daniel #Noboa in FL on Sat.

Noboa & his wife also attended Trump's inauguration.

Ecuadorean ofcls… are interested in hosting a US #military base & have expressed interest in a bilateral free trade deal like those for Colombia & Peru.

The son of one of Ecuador's richest businessmen, Noboa has used state of emergency declarations to deploy the military on the streets & in prisons, implemented harsher sentencing & cheered the arrests of gang leaders.