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“It’s the most important issue on the ballot,” says environmentalist David Fajardo, referring to the referendum question that could end oil production in Yasuní National Park. “All the attention is on the presidential race, but the Yasuní question will ultimately have...
By Genevieve Glatsky and José María León Cabrera When Europe’s busiest port recently announced the discovery of nearly nine tons of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas — its biggest-ever seizure of illegal narcotics — it included a detail that was no longer...
By Lucia Diaz Madurga The ancient inhabitants of the Andes believed that no important activity would prosper if it was not accompanied by coca. In the indigenous worldview, the coca leaf is what makes human activities sacred. It is what blesses the land and the crops,...
The National Electoral Council (CNE) approved the presidential candidacy of journalist Christian Zurita Wednesday night. His application to replace the murdered Fernando Villavicencio was approved unanimously after an objection by the Citizen Revolution party was...
Miércoles, 16/8/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Actividades en casas patrimoniales (Activities in heritage houses) - Art and music have been scheduled for 2 patrimonial houses. At the Casa de las Posadas (Calles Baltazara de Calderón y Octavio Cordero), there will be...
By Leita Hulmes It’s 6:30 in the morning and everyone is excited. The truck from Hearts of Gold has arrived in Esmeraldas! These are just some of the volunteers who showed up to help unload the truck. Hearts of Gold wants to extend thanks to all those who have donated...
Candidates for the presidency and National Assembly are taking special safety precautions in the final week of campaigning for the August 20 election. Most candidates are avoiding large rallies, focusing on small gatherings and television and radio interviews. The...
Lunes, 14/8/2023 Hola, Todos - Titular - Debate: ataques y propaganda (Debate: attacks and propaganda) - See today's (lunes) CHL for story. <At least the candidates stayed at their respective lecterns and didn't wander around the stage. There was a countdown clock...
By Sylvan Hardy Roughly 675 million people speak Spanish as their first or second language. Along with Mandarin (a billion speakers) and English (900 million), Spanish is one of the three most widely spoken languages in the world. It’s also one of the six official...
Far-right populist Javier Milei rocked Argentina’s political establishment Sunday by emerging as the biggest vote-getter in primary elections to choose presidential candidates for the October general election in a nation battered by economic woes. Milei, an admirer of...
In a presidential debate most notable for the absence of Fernando Villavincencio, seven candidates described how they would confront Ecuador’s crime wave and restore a flagging economy Sunday night. Following Wednesday’s assassination of Villavincencio in Quito, the...
By Jeremiah Reardon It was an overcast Friday afternoon in Cuenca when I joined two other students in a guitar lesson taught by one of Ecuador’s finest practitioners of the art, Bolivar Sarmiento, at Casa del Alfarero Cultural Center. The charismatic instructor...
By Catherine E. Shoichet and Parker Leipzig Edith Heyck didn’t expect she’d be 72 years old and living alone. “I always thought I’d be married,” she says. “I was definitely raised to be a wife, and I never imagined I’d be on my own.” Heyck, an artist and part-time...
The Construye Movement announced Saturday that Andrea González will be the party’s presidential candidate, replacing Fernando Villavicencio who was assassinated Wednesday. In a statement, Construye said that González “will guarantee that Villavicencio's legacy will...
Viernes, 11/8/2023 Hola, Todos - Titular - Unidad y paz contra violencia (Unity and peace against violence) - Responses to the assassination of Villavicencio were published. Ex-president Rosalía Arteaga <she was the VP who ascended to the presidency after Abdalá...
By Pablo Ferri No other country handles such a high ratio of tons of cocaine per capita as Ecuador. The South American nation, a hinge between the two major coca leaf producers in world, Colombia and Peru, has become logistical platform for large transnational...
On a day that mixed outrage and sadness, the six Colombians accused of assassinating presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio made their first court appearance in Quito. In addition to murder, the suspects are charged with drug and arms possession. Also on...
Assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio’s name will appear on the August 20 election ballot, National Electoral Council President Diana Atamaint said Thursday. “Because the ballots are already printed there is not time to make a change to a...
Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was murdered late Wednesday afternoon as he left a political rally in Quito. According to police, Villavicencio died from three gunshots to the head as he entered a car following the rally at Colegio Anderson in a northern...
Miércoles, 9/8/2023 Hola, Todos - Titular - "De 20 pantallas para el monitoreo solo sirven 3" (Only 3 out of the 20 monitoring screens work) - Two serious assaults linked with banks occured in less than a week in Cuenca. In the most recent, $50,000 was stolen in an...
