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The Cuenca Risk Management Office and local police are warning the public to avoid river banks due to high water levels caused by recent rains. “This is the rainy season in Cuenca and we can expect more rain through early April,” a spokesman at the risk management office said. “Every year we have two to...
Thursday afternoon’s protest march and rally opposing the government of President Rafael Correa drew an estimated crowd of 1,000 in Cuenca, far below the 5,000 that organizers had predicted. In Santo Domingo Plaza, the group which had marched from Parque San Blas, heard a variety of speakers attack the president accusing him of abandoning the...
By World Crunch editorial board An economic slowdown in Latin America is coinciding with increasing social unease, a spate of corruption scandals, sharp drops in the popularity of several presidents and a more complicated panorama overall for regional governance. Arguably the most troubled country at the moment is Venezuela, which is witnessing more polarization, more...
The recent discovery of a previously unknown volcano in west-central Colombia has Ecuadorian geologists looking over old maps and NASA images in search of concealed volcanoes in the country’s Andes Mountains. The Colombian volcano is dormant but not extinct, geologists say, and could re-erupt at a future date. “It is important that we found it...
Tomorrow’s nationwide protest against government policies appears to be gaining momentum. Originally planned as a series of marches by workers’ unions and indigenous groups, the protest is attracting other groups, including those opposed to new import tariffs imposed last week. Opponents of the national government say the protests, planned for Quito, Cuenca and Guayaquil, and...
Ecuador’s attorney general Galo Chiriboga said he expects the United States to extradite a cousin of President Rafael Correa on a conviction of embezzlement. Chiriboga says he will meet with U.S. Ambassador Adam Namm to discuss the extradition. On Monday, the National Court of Justice convicted Pedro Delgado for embezzling $800,000 from the Ecuador Central...
Admitting that “mistakes may have been made,” Ecuador’s Ministry of Foreign Trade says it is reviewing tariffs on a number of imported products, especially raw materials needed for local manufacturing. Trade minister Diego Aulestia declined to say which imports might be affected but said, “There will be reviews in some cases due to information that...
Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino has slammed Swedish prosecutors for their delay in agreeing to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London in their case against him on rape allegations. “If they had accepted Ecuador’s offer to question him (at the embassy) 1,000 days ago, it would have saved us all a lot...
The International Court of Justice (CIJ) in the Hague ruled Thursday that a prior ruling by an Ecuadorian court that fined the U.S.-based oil company Chevron US$9.5 billion in 2011 should be upheld. The money would benefit about 30,000 Ecuadorians, most of them indigenous. “Today’s decision represents an important step in the right direction,” said...
In a “state of the city” speech on Friday, Mayor Marcelo Cabrera says that 2014 was a banner year for the city of Cuenca and that 2015 will be even better. “Cuenca is a great place to live and it’s getting better,” he said Friday at the University of Azuay. He was accompanied on the...
President Rafael Correa joined the leaders of other Latin American countries in blasting the U.S. government’s listing of Venezuela as a national security threat while slapping sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials through an executive order signed by President Barack Obama. “An executive order by Obama declaring Venezuela a national security threat and declaring a national...
As many business leaders and economists had predicted, Ecuador’s tariff hikes are provoking a backlash. Chilean fruit growers were the first to protest on Tuesday and their complaint was backed up Wednesday by the Chilean government. Chilean trade officials have demanded “formal consultations” with their Ecuadorian counterparts. According to news sources, Panama and Mexico have...
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