ECUADOR-ELECTION-PREPARATIONS

Employees of the Ecuadorean Electoral National Council, load electoral kits on truck for their distribution for Sunday's national election, in Quito, on February 15, 2013. Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa is favored to cruise to a new term Sunday to cement a "socialist revolution" that has brought stability to a nation where several leaders were forced out before him. An outspoken voice of the Latin American left and friend of ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the charismatic, US-educated economist is far ahead of his seven rivals in all opinion polls after six years in office. AFP PHOTO/PABLO COZZAGLIO (Photo credit should read PABLO COZZAGLIO/AFP via Getty Images)