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Early reports on overnight electric blackouts are “positive,” according to a government social media post Thursday morning. “The rationing schedule was carried out as planned and the National Electricity Operator [Cenace] conducted maintenance operations on 15 of the 70 transmission substations operating in the country,” a 6 a.m. statement from the Energy Ministry said. The...
The head of the commission that wrote Ecuador’s 2008 constitution, Alberto Acosta, says reestablishing a U.S. anti-narcotics base in the country is a “terrible” idea. He disagrees with claims by President Daniel Noboa that the closure of the base in 2009 allowed drug traffickers to the enter the country. “The drug gangs and cartels were...
In the latest in a series of contradictory and confusing messages, the Energy Ministry announced Wednesday morning that electric blackouts planned for Wednesday and Thursday night will be two to four hours in length with schedules determined by local electric distributors. For the schedules for Cuenca and Azuay province, click here. On Tuesday morning, Energy...
The municipal government has begun water rationing in Quito and is advising residents to expect service cuts of up to 12 hours in the coming days and weeks. “The prolonged drought and the lack of significant rainfall for 38 days has forced us to take drastic and definitive action,” the Municipal Drinking Water Company (Epmaps)...
The government clarified Tuesday afternoon that the curfew during power blackouts on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and four nights next week, applies only to six provinces and one canton. The provinces are Guayas, Los Ríos, Manabí, Orellana, Santa Helena and El Oro, which remain under emergency declaration status due to high levels of criminal...
The government announced late Monday night that in addition to the overnight blackout Wednesday and Thursday, national blackouts will also be imposed next Monday to Thursday, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. “The schedule has been chosen in order to generate the least possible impact on productive activities during working days,” President Daniel Noboa said...
President Daniel Noboa will ask the National Assembly to change the constitution to allow foreign military bases on Ecuadorian soil, he said Monday via a post on X. The United States previously operated a military base at Manta to combat drug trafficking, but former President Rafael Correa ordered U.S. troops to leave in 2009. Ecuador’s...
Ecuador’s Risk Management Secretariat reports that 2024 is one of the “worst fire years on record,” with more than 23,000 hectares going up in smoke. Loja Province has suffered the most damage, with 14,600 hectares burned while 4,487 and 3,140 hectares, respectively, have been consumed in Azuay and Pichincha Provinces. Risk Management reports that some...
By Liam Higgins While Cuenca recorded its 65th day without significant rainfall Sunday, the current drought is far from the city’s worst. A check of weather records shows at least 20 drought years since 1950, including four classified as “extreme.” During ten droughts in the last 74 years, the city has been forced to ration...
There will be a nationwide overnight power blackout Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the government announced Sunday morning. According to a presidential office statement, the blackout will begin at 10 p.m. Wednesday and end at 6 a.m. Thursday for “preventive maintenance to electricity distribution networks.” A follow-up statement said the work was necessary to...
The country’s ongoing drought is not only threatening hydroelectric generation and drinking water supplies but agricultural production as well. Farmers across the country say that due to the lack of rain, local irrigation systems and farm holding ponds are going dry. “While the emphasis has been on electricity and potable water supplies, the drought is...
By Phillip Martin When we arrive in Ecuador from northern climes it gradually dawns on us that sunrise and sunset come at just about the same time every day, all year long. While we almost universally enjoy the moderate, year round climate this brings us, some of us miss those long summer evenings; however I...
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