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President Guillermo Lasso will ask the National Assembly to approve a law that would allow the Ecuadorian air force to bring down unscheduled aircraft, either through forced landings or shoot-downs. The move is part of a crackdown by his administration on crime and drug trafficking. Earlier this month Lasso declared a state of emergency that...
Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios and Azuay Province Governor Matias Abad said Wednesday morning that Cuenca’s independence holiday will proceed as planned despite the threat of protests. “The disruptions have not been as serious as we feared so I see no reason the celebration should not continue as planned,” said Abad. “Although there may be brief...
Leonidas Iza, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), announced Tuesday night that protests against fuel costs will continue on Wednesday. “The mobilizations will be maintained until the government responds to the outrage of the people,” he said, demanding the immediate release of those arrested during Tuesday’s marches and roadblocks. According to...
Some of the poor fishermen in Manabí and Esmeraldas Provinces are not poor any more. Although most residents in the fishing towns on Ecuador’s north coast won’t talk about it, the few who do say they are noticing more expensive cars and new, state-of-the-art boats in the local harbors. “There aren’t too many of them,”...
President Guillermo Lasso said Monday night that the government is prepared for today’s protests and repeated his pledge that the police and armed forces will keep major highways open. Protests began at midnight in the central sierra and are scheduled throughout the day in other locations, with the largest protest scheduled this afternoon in Quito....
The Movimiento Nacional Campesino, or National Peasant Movement, announced Monday that it would not join the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) in Tuesday’s protest against the government. On Sunday, Conaie President called the campesinos “brothers in arms with the indigenous people against the government.” A partner with Conaie in the October 2019 protests,...
By Deutsche Welle staff It was meant to be a fun family trip to an ice cream parlor. But it ended in tragedy. Eleven-year-old Sebastian was standing at the counter; his parents were sitting at a table with his little sister. Suddenly, shots rang out. Two gunmen exchanged fire with the police on the street...
Four mountain climbers died early Sunday in an avalanche on Mount Chimborazo. Rescue workers said the dead were part of a group of 12 Ecuadorians attempting to summit Ecuador’s highest peak. The accident happened in the Chimborazo Wildlife Reserve at an elevation of 6,100 meters, or about 20,015 feet. According to the Ecuador emergency response...
By Kevin Chan and Matt O’Brien The term “metaverse” seems to be everywhere. Facebook is hiring thousands of engineers in Europe to work on it, while video game companies are outlining their long-term visions for what some consider the next big thing online. The metaverse, which could spring up again when Facebook releases earnings Monday,...
By Peter S. Goodman Computer chips. Exercise equipment. Breakfast cereal. By now, you’ve probably heard: The world has run short of a great many products. In an era in which we’ve become accustomed to clicking and waiting for whatever we desire to arrive at our doors, we have experienced the shock of not being able...
In a major policy reversal, President Guillermo Lasso announced Friday that the government is freezing the price of gasoline and diesel fuel at current levels. He said the policy of allowing prices to rise gradually to international market rates is suspended and that the price of a gallon of regular gasoline will be maintained indefinitely...
By Nick Miroff U.S. authorities detained more than 1.7 million migrants along the Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year that ended in September, and arrests by the Border Patrol soared to the highest levels ever recorded, according to unpublished U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by The Washington Post. Illegal crossings began rising last...
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