Ecuador News

By John Michael Greer Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and manufactured products and about a quarter of its raw materials. This didn’t happen...

President Guillermo Lasso will appear before the National Assembly Tuesday to defend himself against charges of embezzlement, the basis of the impeachment trial that begins this week. According to his legal secretary, the president will insist he committed no crime and followed the recommendations of the national comptroller in the case involving the public company...

By Sylvan Hardy As the clock ticks down to an impeachment vote in the National Assembly that could remove President Guillermo Lasso from office, political and legal experts agree he faces three options. The first is to allow the impeachment trial to play through to the end in the belief the opposition does not have...

“Captain, bring your boat closer,” shouts an Ecuadoran naval officer aboard a launch patrolling the Gulf of Guayaquil on a route traffickers use to ferry drugs to the high seas. Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second largest city and its major port, has become a strategic point for the shipment of hundreds of tons of drugs, mostly cocaine,...

The new trade agreement between Ecuador and China, signed on Wednesday, will have a “massive economic impact” on the country’s agricultural, seafood and manufacturing sectors, according to the Ministry of Production and Trade. “We believe there will be an increase of at least $3 billion in exports in the first year of this arrangement,” the...

By Anna Flack Venezuela had the highest inflation rate for food of Latin America, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As of September 2022 (the latest comprehensive report), the country saw an increase of 110.4 percent from the same month of 2021. Argentina had the second highest food...

By Jaron Lanier As a computer scientist, I don’t like the term “A.I.” In fact, I think it’s misleading — maybe even a little dangerous. Everybody’s already using the term, and it might seem a little late in the day to be arguing about it. But we’re at the beginning of a new technological era...

The Yasunidos Collective celebrated Tuesday’s Constitutional Court decision allowing a popular referendum that could end oil production in the Yasuní National Park. The court decision is a major victory for environmentalists whose 2014 campaign for a Yasuní anti-drilling referendum was stopped by the government. Subsequent investigations determined that the administration of former president Rafael Correa...

Despite the fact the National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to begin an impeachment trial of President Guillermo Lasso, Lasso’s supporters expressed relief that there are not enough votes to dismiss him from office. The vote for the trial was 88 in favor, 23 against and 5 abstentions. To censure and dismiss the president requires 92 votes....