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Mia Farrow has issues with Chevron. So do Sting, Daryl Hannah, Danny Glover, Brad Pitt and Cher. Actors, musicians, and other celebrities have long campaigned against the San Ramon, California oil producer, blaming it for pollution in the rainforest in Ecuador. Now,...
Seven of the 10 defendants in the Coopera embezzlement and money laundering case appeared in court on Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing. A judge heard appeals from defense attorneys during the seven-hour session but ordered that the defendants remain in jail. Judge...
Police in the United States have arrested former Ecuadorean police commander Edgar Vaca, who is accused of human rights abuses. The interior minister in Quito issued a statement saying that the retired general was arrested in Washington and will be extradited to...
A new report on the state of the Internet shows that Ecuador leads all Latin American countries in peak connectivity rate. Other leaders in Latin America are Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. The new report comes from a quarterly "State of the Internet"...
As more doctors join the protest over the wording of a proposed professional malpractice law, Ecuador's government says the law is essential for protecting patients' rights. Doctors want the government to amend the controversial Article 146 of the proposted penal...
By Nick Miroff More than two decades after the Cold War, during which the United States backed anti-communist military rulers and pushed free-market policies in Latin America, conservative governments have virtually disappeared from the region. The leftward shift has...
Supporting President Rafael Correa’s recent crime reduction agenda, Cuenca announced several new measures last week to fight crime in the city. At his Saturday television broadcast, Correa announced new crime statistics showing a nation-wide reduction of crime in...
The rapid decline and revaluation of the Argentinian peso has sent shock waves thorugh Latin American economies. It is troubling countries outside the region as well and is blamed in part for large declines Thursday and Friday on the world's largest stock exchanges....
Ecuadorian airline Tame has suspended flights to Caracas, Venezuela, demanding $43 million in overdue payments for tickets. About 80 passengers were left stranded on Thursday in Quito. Tame says the Venezuelan Central Bank has not transferred any money to its...
Ecuador’s Medical Association is warning that a new medical malpractice laws could force hundreds of doctors out the profession. On Wednestay, 90 doctors from Pablo Arturo Suarez Hospital in Quito resigned in mass to protest the new law that, in some cases,...
President Rafael Correa said Wednesday that Washington has too many military officers assigned to its embassy in Ecuador and he plans to order some to leave. Correa, a U.S.-educated economist who calls himself a "modern leftist," made the remarks during a meeting with...
Attorneys for unreimbursed Coopera members say they are ready to file legal action against the government for poor oversight of the Cuenca-based financial cooperative. Coopera was closed by the government last June when top management and several board members were...
Quito Deputy Mayor Jorge Albán announced Tuesday an ambitious plan to construct a cable car system conntecting Quito and the new airport in Tababela. Albán calls the project a private – public partnership but offered few details about how the financial arrangement...
The Catholic church says it hopes to begin making roof and ceiling repairs to the cathedral. Curia Vice Chancellor Rigoberto Jara said he is working on raising the funds for the work and says he will seek money from both the church and the public. A study by the...
Cuenca tile manufacturers are complaining about the quality of imported floor and decorative tile as well as what they consider unfair competition from foreign manufacturers. According to Gustavo Palacios, vice president of the Ceramic Center, national tile imports...
Ecuador, where the fatty beans used to make chocolate have been grown since pre-Columbian times, is surpassing Brazil as Latin America’s top cocoa producer after boosting planting and running education programs for farmers. Cocoa-bean output rose 13 percent last year...
President Rafael Correa has confirmed that he won't seek re-election when his current term ends in 2017. The government-run newspaper El Telegrafo quoted Correa as saying that it “is dangerous when one person considers himself to be indispensable.” In 2013, in a media...
Seven months after it suspended flights between Cuenca and Guayaquil and three months after it suspended Quito to Loja service, the Cuenca-based Linea Aerea Cuencana (LAC) says it will resume service in March. In a major change, however, it said it will fly into and...
Ecuador’s Social Security administration, Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS), is reviewing the terms of expanded voluntary membership in its health care program. A spokesman for the agency said, however, that any adjustments will not affect the...
Through mid-January, more than 25,000 have visited the new planetarium that opened in November in Parque de la Madre, according to educational director Paúl Tenesaca. Most of the visitors have been school children who observe stars and planets on the planetarium’s...
