Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, the latest in a growing string of left-leaning leaders in Latin America, has been officially declared the winner of the country’s presidential vote. Correa, a friend of Venezuela’s fiercely anti-American President Hugo Chavez, earned 57.9 percent of the votes against conservative tycoon Noboa’s 42.1 percent, with 90.1 percent of the votes tallied, according to an official count by the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Full Story