Ecuador's youngest-ever president Daniel Noboa takes office

Ecuador's new president, the 35-year-old millionaire heir to a business empire, Daniel Noboa, took office Thursday as the leader of a country gripped by a bloody drug war.

Noboa, who was elected in October vowing to restore peace to his country, takes over from Guillermo Lasso, who called snap elections to avoid possible impeachment. He will serve only 18 months, the remainder of Lasso's term. Noboa's newly formed National Democratic Action alliance won only 17 of 137 parliamentary seats in the October election.