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By Luis Jaime Acosta Emissaries of Mexican drug cartels are involving themselves more closely in cocaine production in Colombia, paying farmers in advance and pushing cultivation of highly-productive strains, coca growers, security officials and human rights activists say. Top Mexican cartels like Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generacion — which have large areas of influence within...
Imprisonment is nearly “a death sentence” in Ecuador, Amnesty International warned, a day after the latest prison riot left dozens of inmates dead. In a statement on Tuesday, the human rights group’s Americas director Erika Guevara Rosas said “repeated mistakes” by the Ecuadorian authorities have led to the deaths of hundreds of people in the...
At least 44 inmates have been killed in Ecuador’s latest deadly prison riot, government officials say. A fight broke out Sunday between rival gangs Los Lobos and R7 at the federal prison in Santo Domingo, 80 kilometers west of Quito. Ecuador is battling a wave of gang violence, and has recently seen its most deadly...
One person died and three more were injured Saturday in Quito when an intense hail storm collapsed the roof of an athletic facility. The hail, centered in the city’s northern neighborhoods, covered gardens, sidewalks and patios and stranded drivers on low-lying streets. The ECU 911 emergency call center received more than a hundred calls, most...
By Saleem H. Ali The allure of the Galapagos Islands as the cradle of Darwin’s insights on natural selection remains a major draw for scientists to the volcanic archipelago. Located less than a thousand miles west of the South American mainland, this exotic evolutionary outpost is at a “goldilocks distance” from the mainland : close...
Two-thirds of Ecuadorians say their personal economic situation is worse than it was a year ago, with 82% blaming it on the Covid-19 pandemic. Almost as many, 63 percent, believe that most of their elected officials are corrupt. In the latest Political Culture of Democracy in Ecuador and in the Americas, conducted by Vanderbilt University,...
By Craig Murray Texaco Oil operations in Ecuador from 1962 to 1994 dumped 70 billion litres of “wastewater”, heavily contaminated with oil and other chemicals, into the Amazon rainforest, plus over 650,000 barrels of crude oil, polluting more than 800,000 hectares. It is one of the worst ecological disasters in history — 30 times greater...
The Chilean soccer federation asked FIFA to investigate its claim that Ecuador player Byron Castillo is actually Colombian and not entitled to have played in qualifying games. The complaint comes more than one month after South American qualifying ended and Ecuador was drawn into a group with host nation Qatar, the Netherlands and Senegal. “FIFA...
National Assembly President Guadalupe Llori has 10 days to defend herself against charges that she failed to carry out her executive duties. The commission assigned to investigate Llori is holding hearings this week based on complaints filed by Social Christian Assemblyman Cristian Esteban Torres. Torres claims Llori failed to allow consideration of procedural changes to...
By Cristina Delgado Vintimilla and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw In the remote Andean community of El Cisne in Ingapirca, Ecuador, one of the first things you’ll notice is children’s laughter. In a courtyard, women gather with their children to trace ancestral knowledge and memories — and they do this using wool. The alpaca wool that helps them...
Saying the Covid-19 epidemic is “under control” in Ecuador, Health Minister Ximena Garzón said Tuesday that only the emergence of a new, more dangerous variant would cause the government to reverse its decision to drop the face mask decision. “We have entered a new phase with Covid, with less severe cases and few hospitalizations and...
By Aaron Joshua Spray The Inca Empire was centered in Peru — the capital of Cusco and Machu Picchu are both in Peru. But the empire was much greater than that and expanded as far south as Santiago in Chile and as far north as Colombia. It included all of Ecuador and today Ecuador boasts...
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