Ecuador’s electoral council has approved President Daniel Noboa’s plan to hold a referendum in November on whether foreign military bases should be allowed in the country. Ecuador’s constitution was revised in 2008 under leftist president Raphael Correa to prohibit foreign military bases, but Noboa now wants to partner with other countries, including the United States, to fight drug trafficking gangs. Noboa won reelection in April in part by promising to crack down on crime in the country, and now the Ecuadoran public is looking to him to deliver. While Noboa has focused on using domestic and foreign military forces to fight drug gangs, a long-term fix to the country’s security problems will also require more complex measures, such as building up the capabilities of civilian police forces and rooting out corruption in the government, James Bosworth wrote in June.