Ecuador

since 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 21:36 UTC

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51 days ago

US and European armies should join our war on gangs, Ecuador president tells BBC

found 2025 › Mar › 19 (Wed) @ 10:40 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Daniel Noboa is calling on international armies to fight the cartels trafficking most of the world's cocaine.

58 days ago

Ecuador enlists founder of Blackwater private army as ally in ‘war’ on crime

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 20:21 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Daniel Noboa, who is seeking re-election as president, announces partnership with Trump supporter Erik Prince

Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, has announced a “strategic alliance” with the Donald Tr…

Flooding in southern Ecuador collapses bridge, damages buildings

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 20:21 UTC

a story from Euronews › Euronews

Heavy rains in southern Ecuador caused the Malacatos and Zamora rivers to overflow, damaging buildings and collapsing a bridge.

60 days ago

Colombia urges UN to remove coca leaf from harmful substances list

found 2025 › Mar › 10 (Mon) @ 22:02 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Foreign minister says legalisation of main ingredient of cocaine is only way to stop drug trafficking and violence

Colombia, whose president, Gustavo Petro, is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drug…

61 days ago

Labour ministers cost the taxpayer £2million after racking up hue travel bill in just 90 days

found 2025 › Mar › 09 (Sun) @ 08:57 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

From jaunts to the Euros and the Olympics in Paris to meetings in Indonesia, Japan and Ecuador, Labour ministers racked up a £2.1 million bill for travel from July to September last year.

62 days ago

This land is your land: leaf portraits of Ecuador’s female farmers – in pictures

found 2025 › Mar › 08 (Sat) @ 19:33 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

In the Zuleta community in Ecuador, farming is about more than just sustenance: it is about cultivating a deep relationship with the land based on ancestral knowledge. In her travels in the region, C…

Bloodshed in Ecuador as 22 are killed in street gunfights: Rival factions of notorious gang clash as president scrambles to crackdown on violence plaguing the country

found 2025 › Mar › 08 (Sat) @ 09:13 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Gun battles broke out across the northern neighborhood of Nueva Prosperina on Thursday afternoon between members of criminal group Los Tiguerones.

63 days ago

At least 22 people killed as gang violence erupts in Ecuador

found 2025 › Mar › 07 (Fri) @ 18:51 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera › Al Jazeera English

Rival factions of drug trafficking gang fight over territory in port city of Guayaquil before a presidential election.

79 days ago

‘Society makes us invisible’: Black Ecuadorians fight to defend their culture

found 2025 › Feb › 19 (Wed) @ 20:59 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Afro-Guayaquileños mostly live in the impoverished belts of Guayaquil and have been made to believe their customs are ‘the worst’, say activists

Painted with the support of the city council in 2017, a…

81 days ago

‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping

found 2025 › Feb › 17 (Mon) @ 09:44 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Despite government efforts, armed groups control many remote areas. Now researchers are caught in the crosshairs

Raul*, a biologist from Quito, has been leading conservation projects in the Chocó rain…

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