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President Rafael Correa is accusing the polling organization Cedatos, the Citizen Participation Corporation (CPC) and media outlets of attempting to manipulate the outcome of the last week's presidential runoff election. In an exit poll released shortly after the...
By Andres Schipani Ecuador’s president-elect swept to victory this week partly on the coat-tails of Rafael Correa, the country’s mercurial leader, who anointed him as his successor. But, he insists: “I will be making the decisions in the next government. I will apply...
By Ernesto Londoño Lenín Moreno, Ecuador’s president-elect, has described being a paraplegic as a blessing. People who walk, he explained a few years ago, keep their gaze trained forward and upward. “When you don’t have legs, you look down,” he said in 2012, when he...
President-elect Lenin Moreno met Thursday with 60 ambassadors from foreign countries and said his office would be open to all of them. “My door will always be open and my intention is to establish cordial, cooperative relationships with all governments of the world,”...
Juan Pablo Pozo, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), said Wednesday that the council will review alleged voting irregularities but only if they are backed up by credible evidence. His comments came hours after a news conference by defeated presidential...
Juan Pablo Pozo, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), announced Tuesday that Lenin Moreno’s victory in Sunday’s presidential election is “confirmed and is irreversible.” With 99.65 percent of the vote counted, Moreno holds a 51.16 to 48.84 percent lead...
Guillermo Lasso continues to claim that Sunday’s presidential election was "illegitimate and fraudulent" and says he will insist on a recount. With 99.5% of ballots counted, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) reported Monday night that Lenin Moreno, former...
Fire and rescue officials report that two foreign residents drowned Saturday night on a beach near Crucita. The man and woman were swept to deep water in exceptionally heavy surf, they say. Police did not release the names of the victims but a local newspaper...
Lenin Moreno declared victory Sunday night in Ecuador's hotly contested presidential election. He told cheering supporters that he will continue the work of President Rafael Correa but said there would be changes in both substance and style. He admitted that his...
By shortly after 5 p.m. this afternoon, Ecuadorians will most likely know if Rafael Correa’s Citizens' Revolution will continue for another four years. Although Correa is leaving office after 10 years, his would-be heir apparent, Lenin Moreno, says he will maintain...
Ecuador’s National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (INAMHI) isn’t having much luck explaining the weather. “This is not an El Niño,” says José Olmedo, director of INAMHI. “The reason for the exceptional rainfall is a rare phenomenon of very high ocean...
Ecuadorian national police have unearthed the body of a 65-year-old U.S. citizen buried under a house in Guayaquil. They reported that the body of Jonathan Charles Gilchrist, a resident of Salinas, was found buried under a concrete slab. Prosecutor Santiago...
Ecuador entered its pre-election “quiet period” at 12:01 Friday morning and the dry law, banning the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages, goes into effect at noon. The rules remain in force through Sunday’s presidential runoff election. The campaigns of Lenin...
Lenin Moreno says he and President Rafael Correa are in “complete agreement” on immigration policy. “I support the language in the (2008) Montecristi Constitution and the concept of free mobility between nations,” says the Alianza País presidential candidate. “I...
By Liam Higgins Borrowed money has been responsible for much of Ecuador’s progress over the last decade, President Rafael Correa said Saturday during his weekly address to the nation in Rumiñahui. “I make no apologies for the debt because it has been used wisely to...
The only face-to-face meeting between presidential candidates Guillermo Lasso and Lenin Moreno was cancelled Saturday by the event sponsor, the Ecuador Red de Maestros, or Network of Teachers. The event, officially called a "dialog," had been scheduled for tonight....
Twenty-two cats have been rescued from a cave in Quito following the death of their owner. The body of the cats' owner, identified only as Oswaldo, was found in the cave where he lived in the El Panecillo district of Quito, adjacent to the San Diego cemetery....
Criticizing a government program to recruit Cuban doctors, presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso said Thursday that Ecuador may have gone too far in its ‘open border’ immigration policy. In particular, he said the country should make sure those who want to stay...
By Stephanie Pappas The sprawling Refinería del Pacífico near Esmeraldas is an enormous industrial complex stamped out of the tropical forest in Ecuador. So, when herpetologists discovered a new species of snake outside the petrochemical plant's gates, their minds...
A rare weather pattern called ‘niño costero’, or coastal child, is the reason some areas of Ecuador and Peru are receiving record amounts of rain, weather experts say. The phenomenon is characterized by higher than normal coastal water temperatures, which are...
