Category: Ecuador
April 27, 2020 > Juan Carlos Valarezo
Deaths and Desperation Mount in Ecuador, Epicenter of Coronavirus Pandemic in Latin America
This article was originally publish on The Conversation. By Dennis Altman and Juan Carlos Valarezo. Dead bodies are lying at home and in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador, a city […] Read More >
September 16, 2019 > Gabriela Barzallo
After 6 Years of Struggle, First LGBT Couple to Request Marriage in Ecuador Says ‘I Do’
QUITO, Ecuador — Pamela Troya was preparing for an interview with a human rights defense organization in Quito in June when a fellow LGBT activist burst into the studio screaming. […] Read More >
March 27, 2019 > Gabriela Barzallo
‘Todos Somos Martha’: Ecuadorians Protest Gender Violence, Femicide and Xenophobia
QUITO — For two days in January, thousands of people mobilized on the main avenues of Quito, Guayaquil and several other cities in Ecuador, protesting sexual violence, femicide and xenophobia. […] Read More >
August 24, 2018 > Staff
All nine judges of Ecuador’s highest court were dismissed in what former president called “a true coup”
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: The transitory Citizens Participation and Social Control Council dismissed all nine justices of the nation’s highest court on the argument that there had been a […] Read More >
August 20, 2018 > Staff
Venezuelan migrants attacked in Brazil and stopped from reaching Ecuador
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA-BRAZIL-ECUADOR-PERU: The residents of a Brazilian border town with Venezuela, in the northern state of Roraima, attacked squatter camps of Venezuelan migrants over the weekend. […] Read More >
July 12, 2018 > Staff
Ecuador upholds sentence against Chevron, New York state disbars representing lawyer for bribery
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: Thehighest court upheld a sentence that requires U.S. oil giant Chevron to pay $9.5 billion in damages for decades polluting the rainforest. Oil operations […] Read More >
July 10, 2018 > Staff
The U.S. menaced Ecuador into backing off U.N. breast-milk resolution
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR-UNITED STATES: The United States strong-armed Ecuador into backing off from proposing a resolution to promote breast-feeding during the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly at […] Read More >
July 6, 2018 > Staff
Ecuadorean judge issues international capture order for ex President Correa
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: A judge issued an order on Tuesday for former president Rafael Correa’s capture and extradition from Belgium, where he has lived for the past year […] Read More >
June 19, 2018 > Staff
Ecuador’s High court includes former president Correa in kidnap probe
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: The National Court of Justice ordered former President Rafael Correa be included in an investigation into the attempted kidnapping by police officers of an opposition […] Read More >
April 18, 2018 > Staff
Two more people kidnapped by FARC dissidents on the Ecuador-Colombia border
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR-COLOMBIA: Yesterday, Ecuadorean authorities identified as Oscar Efrén Villacís Gómez, 24, and Katty Vanesa Velasco Pinargote, 20, the two persons who appear in a proof of […] Read More >