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Editor’s note: To support a proposal that the Inca Trail be granted UNESCO World Heritage status, members of Cuenca’s city government walked 20 kilometers of the 600-year-old road network on Saturday morning. The trail, called Qhapac Nan by the Incas, is also known at Camino Inca. Cuenca’s support for the special designation of Qhapac Nan...
By April Holloway In 2012, a team of explorers and researchers discovered what they believed to be an ancient pyramid complex in a remote area of the Ecuador Amazonian jungle, one not known to the general public internationally or even within the country. Bruce Fenton, author and researcher, believes the complex may be the ‘Lost...
Prosecutors are preparing their case against eight former police and military officials on charges of kidnap, torture and sexual violence against three Ecuadorians considered “enemies of the government” of former President León Febres-Cordero. Ecuador’s National Court of Justice ruled Friday that the trial can procede but did not set a date. The government charges that...
Police in the United States have arrested former Ecuadorean police commander Edgar Vaca, who is accused of human rights abuses. The interior minister in Quito issued a statement saying that the retired general was arrested in Washington and will be extradited to Ecuador. Vaca and nine other officers have been accused of kidnapping and torturing...

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Week of April 28

General Motors Auto Parts Manufacturer Laments: “Today Marks a Dark Day for the National Industry”.

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Minister Requests Resignations in Termogás Machala, Dubbed ‘Epicenter of Energy Inefficiency’.

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Chevrolet to Cease Car Assembly in Ecuador by August, Production to Halt in Colombia.

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