Luisa Gonzalez, candidate for the presidency of Ecuador, spends hours before the election day at home with her family and close friends, cooking the typical dishes of Canuto -- her small coastal home town. Gonzalez is pitted against incumbent Daniel Noboa in a razor-close presidential runoff. The election has been dominated by anger over cartel violence that has transformed Ecuador from one of the safest countries in Latin America to the most deadly. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES