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US Vice President Mike Pence told a summit of leaders in America on Saturday that more needs to be done to isolate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that Washington “will not sit idly by while the country collapses. US Vice President calls for more measures to isolate Venezuela’s Maduro “We need only look to the...
Ecuadorian and Colombian forces are intensifying their hunt for the leader of the group that has taken credit for the murders of three members of an Ecuadorian press team. A group of former FARC guerrillas that has taken claim for the murders of the press team from Quito’s EL COMERCIO newspaper, are now the subjects...
By C. Thi Nguyen Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It’s not just that different people are drawing subtly different conclusions from the same evidence. It seems like different intellectual communities no longer share basic foundational beliefs. Maybe nobody cares about the truth anymore, as some have started to worry. Maybe political...
Cuenca has suspended city-sponsored foundation holiday events for Saturday and Sunday in honor of three Ecuadorian journalists murdered by drug traffickers in southern Colombia. The cancellations follow the announcement by President Lenin Moreno of a four-day mourning period for the victims. “Today, we want to join in the exercise of national unity following the tragic...
President Lenin Moreno has confirmed that two Ecuadorian journalists and their driver have been murdered by their kidnappers in southern Colombia. He made the announcement early Friday afternoon following confirmation of photographic evidence by the national police. Reporter Javier Ortega, photographer Paúl Rivas and driver Efraín Segarra of the Quito newspaper El Comercio were abducted...
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President Lenin Moreno returned to Quito Thursday night following reports that three Ecuadorian journalists kidnapped by a Colombian drug gang have been murdered. Shortly after his return from Lima where he had planned to attend the Summit of the Americas, Moreno gave the kidnappers 12 hours to prove that two reporters and a driver for...
Cuenca Mayor Marcelo Cabrera says he remains committed to establishing an integrated transportation system, with a single fare, for buses, the tram, and bicycle rentals. In an interview Wednesday with the editors of the El Tiempo newspaper, Cabrera repeated his earlier pledge to begin the tram fare at 35 cents, with those over 65 and...
China’s ambassador to Peru warned on Wednesday that it would be disrespectful for the United States to drag Latin America into its trade dispute with Beijing, but told Reuters a potential trade war between the world’s top two economies could bolster the region’s exports. Speaking on the eve of the Summit of the Americas that...
According to the national police, crime in Cuenca’s historic district has dropped dramatically in recent years. They also say that trouble spots remain, mostly in the El Sagrario sector, which includes much of the northern part of the district. “We’ve been able to reduce crime by more than 50 percent in the last decade in...
By David Hill Three A’I Cofan men were staring down at a pit of rocks, dead foliage and filthy water where two gold-panners were working. Beyond was a sluice and hoses running down to the rushing, green waters of the River Aguarico. To the right, there was mud, more rocks, more equipment, a makeshift tent...
A court in Ecuador has threatened to seek an international arrest warrant for Colombia’s former military commander for a 2008 bombing that killed a FARC leader in the neighboring country. The bombing also killed four Mexican students. The court of the Ecuadorian province of Sucumbios ordered Colombia’s former military leadership to testify over the bombing...
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