RECOUNT DEMANDED IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Quito, Ecuador — Leftist candidate Lenin Moreno won Ecuador’s presidential runoff Sunday, according to an official quick count, reversing a recent right-ward trend in Latin American politics and continuing President Rafael Correa’s “Citizens’ Revolution.” But opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso, a conservative former banker who had already claimed victory based three exit polls that showed him winning, immediately demanded a recount, setting the stage for protests in this historically turbulent Andean nation. “We will know how to defend the people’s will,” Lasso said.