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By Ben Collins In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will “detox the vaxx” for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates. The ingredients in the bath are mostly not harmful, although the supposed benefits attached to them...
A prolonged gunbattle between rival gangs inside Ecuador’s largest prison killed at least 68 inmates and wounded 25 on Saturday, while authorities said it took most of the day to regain control at the Litoral Penitentiary, which recently saw the country’s worst prison bloodbath. The killing erupted before dawn at the prison in Guayaquil in...
The Interior Ministry reports that crime increased in most categories through the first nine months of 2021. Auto theft showed the largest jump, up 55 percent while personal robberies increased 27 percent. Home and business burglaries increased 16 percent while murders were up 14 percent. According to the ministry, almost 90 percent of the increase...
Ecuador’s Attorney General’s Office said on Friday that it had frozen the bank accounts of several business leaders and former government officials, including former President Rafael Correa and members of his administration, who were sentenced last year for breaking campaign finance laws. Correa and 19 others, including his former vice president who is in prison...
By Luisa Palacios and Francisco Monaldi Oil and gas prices are at multi-year highs — for now. But with a rash of net-zero pledges from oil-producing and oil-consuming nations alike coming from COP26 negotiations in Glasgow, the future of Latin America’s oil industry is in jeopardy. The region’s national oil companies, especially in a few...
Although Ecuador’s annual inflation rate increased to 1.47 percent in October, an economics professor says the country will not suffer the same post-pandemic price surge seen in the U.S. “Because we use the U.S. dollar, there is concern that we will experience similar inflation as the U.S. but this is highly unlikely,” says Randall Covington,...
Following a full day of meetings at the Presidential Palace in Quito, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) and President Guillermo Lasso said Wednesday night that significant progress was made and that negotiations will continue. According to both Lasso and Conaie President Leonidas Iza, consensus was reached on three of the six agenda...
By BBC Reality Check Team The burning of fossil fuels is one of the primary causes of global warming. But despite pledges to phase out support, governments around the world spend more than $420 billion each year subsidising the non-renewable energy, according to the UN Development Programme. How do fossil fuel subsidies work and which...
By Liam Higgins According to Quito attorney Gustavo Martinez, too many North American expats consider filing a law suit before they try to resolve problems personally or through mediation. “In Ecuador, legal action is always a last resort, not a starting point,” says Martinez, who holds law degrees in Ecuador and the U.S. “In the...
Only days after it appeared Guillermo Lasso’s presidency was in serious jeopardy, the case against him is collapsing. On Monday, the commission report recommending that the National Assembly begin impeachment proceedings seemed, itself, to be in jeopardy of not being accepted by the full Assembly. “This was a house of cards from the beginning and...
President Guillermo Lasso is demanding that the full National Assembly reject a committee report recommending he be impeached for holding off-shore investments. The investments were revealed in the Pandora Papers, a project of international journalists that listed the financial accounts and assets of government officials as well as the rich and famous. “This is nothing...
Residents of the Molleturo parish met Friday and Saturday with national transportation officials who promised that work would begin soon to repair the Cuenca-Molleturo-Guayaquil highway. The residents of the Cajas mountains community claim the government has not moved quickly enough to repair landslide damage to the highway that connects businesses and markets in the area....
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