On April 2, the night he lost the runoff election by slim margin of 2 percent, Guillermo Lasso was not as conciliatory as such occasions usually demand. The wealthy banking magnate was forthright in denouncing his leftist adversary and that night’s victor, Lenín Boltaire Moreno. Lasso claimed electoral fraud, vowed to defend the people’s will, and warned Moreno, and sitting president Rafael Correa, not to “play with fire.” Lasso’s supporters instantly put his words into action.
