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The government announced Monday that most deliveries of packages from overseas will cost an additional $20 beginning June 16. The tariff is applied to the popular 4x4 delivery system and will have the biggest impact on purchases from online sellers Temu, Amazon and...
The government is eliminating the electricity subsidy for large companies, including commercial mines, and ending the diesel subsidy for commercial fishing companies. Presidential press spokeswoman Carolina Jaramillo Garcés said that it “is time that large commercial...
The Tranvía is Cuenca’s sleek, quiet, gliding answer to traffic and taxis — and also one of the few things in town that regularly runs on time. It stretches like a silver thread from the Industrial Park in the northwest to the southern suburb of Río Tarqui, passing...
More than 1,800 army troops destroyed equipment and buildings at five illegal Amazon gold mines on Friday and Saturday. In addition, air force jets carried out bombing raids on three other mines. In Orellana Province, a housing barracks was burned and large excavation...
Cuenca’s main bus terminal on Av. España will be replaced by two new terminals, the city announced last week. Municipal Projects Director Romeo Moncayo said the new terminals, located in Narancay and on Av. del Migrante, will open in about three years. According to...
By Lance Brashear The French have played an important role in the history of Ecuador. It was the French Geodesic Mission to Ecuador that confirmed the exact shape of the Earth in the 1700s. And in 1809, Napolean Bonaparte prompted the first shouts of independence in...
Ecuador’s government issued a public apology on Saturday to a group of plantation workers who were subjected to slave-like conditions according to a ruling issued last year by the country’s Constitutional Court. In an event held near the presidential palace in Quito,...
”It hurts to see what Citizens Revolution has turned into,” Guayas Province Prefect Marcela Aguiñaga said Thursday. “The movement we built with a commitment of hope for all Ecuadorians is today dominated by big egos and personal agendas." Aguiñaga’s comments, posted...
By Martín De Ambrosio & Fermín Koop More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina Thursday wearing gas masks like those in the Netflix series ‘The Eternaut’. Playing on the post-apocalyptic television show’s theme —...
By Mark Daffey We're 3600 metres above sea level and for reasons unexplained, there's a canoe on the lawn outside the Chilcabamba Mountain Lodge where I'm booked to stay the next two nights. As incongruous as that sounds, even a boat so far from water fails to steal...
The Esmeraldas refinery will be out of operation for more than a month, the Energy Ministry said Thursday. Energy Minister Inés Manzano said repairs are already underway following Monday's fire, adding she did not know when operations at the facility would resume. "We...
National Police evicted anti-mining protesters Wednesday night from the Interprovincial Federation of Shuars (FICSH) community center in Sucua, Morona Santiago Province. Among those evicted was FICSH President Domingo Ankuash. According to Nayra Chalan, former vice...
In Cuenca, pharmacies are like bus stops. There’s always another one just down the street — and sometimes three or four clustered together like gossiping hens. It’s not uncommon to see five within sight of each other, each offering the same range of off-brand...
By Sarah Birke Two weeks ago in El Boletín I wrote about President Nayib Bukele’s government’s relationship with Salvadorean gang leaders. El Faro, an online newspaper, had published video interviews in which gang members alleged that Mr Bukele had struck deals with...
Despite the government’s announcement it will have an additional 979 megawatts of electric power generation available by August, many experts are warning that the country’s energy crisis has not been resolved. “Yes, this helps and, combined with increased rainfall it...
By Anastasia Piatakhina Giré We all come to our new country with some kind of luggage. Sometimes we bring with us some heavily charged suitcases, sometimes just a few books and a backpack. Even if we like to travel light, we still carry some pieces of our reality, the...
By Brandi Morin In the eastern shadows of Ecuador’s Andes mountains, where the dense Amazon rainforest begins its sprawl toward the horizon, the Maikuaints Shuar stand at a crossroads of survival. Their pristine territory, covering 8,500 hectares and home to 430...
By Eric Ralls Every buzzing phone call, every late-night lamp glow, every mile an electric car glides down the highway has one thing in common: they’re all powered by copper. The rosy metal hides in cables, motors, chargers, even inside the walls that keep the lights...
By Aude Soichet and Allie Yang The Galapagos Islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean are staggeringly beautiful, volcanic and remote — 600 miles away from Ecuador, the country that owns them. At least 14 islands make up the Galapagos National Park, and a remarkable 97%...
By Luis Carlos Córdova-Alarcón After achieving control in the National Assembly, President Daniel Noboa sent the draft "Organic Law to dismantle the criminal economy linked to the internal armed conflict", describing it as urgent economic to accelerate its approval....
