Ecuador News

In a poll measuring attitudes toward key political figures and government institutions, Ecuadorians have an almost two-to-one preference for El Salvador’s right-wing, tough-on-crime President Nayib Bukele over Ecuadorian leaders. Bukele’s attraction? He has thrown tens-of-thousands of crime gang members into prison, lowering his country’s crime rate by more than 50%. Bukele, also famous for making...

Since Christmas, Waorani indigenous people have blockaded an oil field in the Amazonian village of Dicaro to force state-owned Petroecuador to honor the agreements that authorized crude production in Yasuni National Park. With a population of roughly 300, Dicaro is one of eight communities of Waorani – who lived in nearly complete isolation until the...

As the February mid-term election approaches, more candidates are being accused of connections will crime organizations. On Wednesday, the Anti-Corruption Parliamentary Front handed over the names of an unknown number of candidates it says have received support from drug, mining and human trafficking crime groups. It was the organization’s second delivery of suspect names to...

By Claudia Rebaza, Tara John, Jack Guy and Mia Alberti Protests across Peru on Thursday saw thousands of police officers deployed to the capital Lima as thousands of protesters marched toward the downtown area, while fierce clashes erupted in Arequipa, the country’s second largest city. The Andean country’s weeks-long protest movement – which seeks a...

By Dani Blum In the 1950s, researchers from across the globe embarked on a sweeping and ambitious study. For decades, they scrutinized the diets and lifestyles of thousands of middle-aged men living in the United States, Europe and Japan and then examined how those characteristics affected their risks of developing cardiovascular disease. The Seven Countries...

Meteorologists are warning that large waves will continue to pound Ecuador’s southern Pacific coast and the Galapagos Islands through the rest of the week and possibly longer. They say the waves, some 2.6 meters above normal, and high surf are a product of weather systems in the northern Pacific Ocean and are also a threat...

By Catrin Einhorn and Manuela Andreoni Photographs by Erin Schaff In a swath of lush Amazon rainforest here, near some of the last Indigenous people on Earth living in isolation, workers recently finished building a new oil platform carved out of the wilderness. Teams are drilling in one of the most environmentally important ecosystems on...

In 2022 and through the second week of January, the Ministry of Health reports 97 violent attacks in hospitals and health clinics in the country, all of them in coastal provinces. Many of the attacks are raids by armed individuals or groups attempting to kill patients wounded in earlier confrontations. According to police, almost all...