The man with the mighty microphone

摘要

New highways and motorways snake across Ecuador, lined with billboards reminding drivers how bad the Andean country's potholed road network was until Rafael Correa was first elected as president six years ago. The towns and villages boast new schools and health clinics. The minimum wage has risen well above inflation, and some 2m poorer people (in a population of 14.5m) get monthly cash transfers.