Latin America

His father ran for the Presidency multiple times and always lost. Here's an article published in 2002 in the NY Times, written when the father was giving it his last attempt. Clearly the son was raised by a slaver, and a grifter of the highest magnitude:

In Ecuador's Banana Fields, Child Labor Is Key to Profits
By Juan Forero
July 13, 2002

At Los Álamos plantation, it would appear that no expense was spared to produce the Bonita brand Cavendish bananas sold in the United States.

The modern 3,000-acre hacienda in this steamy corner of Ecuador, one of the most efficient in Latin America, employs some 1,300 workers to tend banana plants fed by a state-of-the-art irrigation system.

The owner is Álvaro Noboa, Ecuador's richest man and a worldly bon vivant. He has become the leading candidate for president with the help of a slick marketing campaign that has cast him as a populist friend of the poor. ''I love the workers at Los Álamos,'' Mr. Noboa told local reporters in May, when he announced his candidacy.

But in interviews, a dozen children and many adults spoke of child laborers at Los Álamos, among them a spindly-armed 10-year-old, Esteban Menéndez. ''I come here after school and I work here all day,'' Esteban said. ''I have to work to help my father, to help him make money.''

More:
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/13/world/in-ecuador-s-banana-fields-child-labor-is-key-to-profits.html

Or:
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/13/world/in-ecuador-s-banana-fields-child-labor-is-key-to-profits.html

(Please consider reading this article. Most people in the US don't seem to have any idea this hideous behavior toward the poor majorities has been going on almost unchanged while the workers and their children toil their entire lives away, and the parents die early, and everyone suffers.)



Álvaro, celebrating his son, Daniel.





Álvaro, creeping out a doggie.