Ecuador President Dissolves Legislature Ahead of Impeachment Vote

Guillermo Lasso can now govern by decree for six months before new elections

Police outside the National Assembly in Quito after Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso issued a decree dissolving the legislature. Photo: rodrigo buendia/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the national legislature on Wednesday ahead of an impeachment vote and amid growing unrest in the Andean nation that has fueled a surge of migration to the U.S.

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