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Foreign Trade Minister Diego Aulestia travels to Geneva this week to explain to the World Trade Organization (WTO) why Ecuador extended surcharges on imports for another year. In 2015, the WTO allowed the surcharges on the condition that they end this month. The WTO’s...
By Liam Higgins According to a Quito political science professor, the story of an alleged U.S. spy operation intended to destabilize the Ecuadorian government is an “amateur production that combines fraud and slapstick.” According to Rodrigo Salazar, “The spy charges...
Despite a furious finish, played almost entirely in front of the opponent’s goal, Ecuador lost its chance to advance to the Copa America semifinals Thursday night, falling to a disciplined U.S. team 2-1. Ecuador fell behind 2-0 on goals by Clint Dempsey and Gyasi...
According to the coach and players, tonight’s football game with the U.S. is one of the biggest football games in Ecuador team history. It is the first time the team has reached the quarterfinal round in Copa play in 23 years and it is the first time it has played the...
Ecuador defeated Haiti 4-0 Sunday night in New Jersey and advanced to the quarterfinals of Copa America competition for the first time in 20 years. The Tri-Color’s victory set up a Thursday night match with the host U.S. team in Seattle. In the first half of a game...
By Shivani Vora The 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Ecuador in April that killed at least 650 people and injured more than 2,000, emotionally devastated the country and caused enormous damage. A disaster that severe can often lead to a downturn in tourism, but that may...
Loja Mayor José Castillo has enraged animal rights advocates by suggesting a draconian solution to the city’s high population of street dogs. “First, we collect them. Then we find a rational way to make them disappear,” he said last week on the city’s public...
By Jim Wyss Residents of the sweltering port town of Esmeraldas like to boast that at least twice a day they have the best soccer pitch in the country: the beach at low-tide. On a recent weekday, as dozens of young men sprinted back and forth along the hard-packed...
Ecuador’s anemic economy could be poised for recovery. For more than two years, low oil prices and a strong U.S. dollar have been blamed for rising unemployment, falling sales and declining tax revenues. Slowly but steadily in recent weeks those factors appear to be...
Ecuador and Brazil played to a scoreless tie Saturday night in a game Ecuador believes it should have won. In the 66th minute of the opening round of Copa America play in Los Angeles, Ecuadorian striker Miller Bolaños sent a cross very close to the endline that Brazil...
Ecuador’s national football team faces perennial world power Brazil tonight in the opening round of Copa America play in Los Angeles. The game kicks off at 9 p.m. Ecuador time in the Rose Bowl where a crowd of 50,000 is expected. Odds-makers have made Ecuador the...
Despite upbeat predictions from some national and local officials, reconstruction from the April 16 earthquake could take many years. This was the assessment Saturday from the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) as it toured several areas near the...
By Liam O'Higgins Although President Rafeal Correa was the headliner at Tuesday’s report to the nation convocation in Quito, former Vice President Lenin Moreno almost stole the show. Moreno received an extended standing ovation as he entered the main hall of the...
By Joseph Treaster A small, energetic young woman named Africa Berdonces, who rides a beat-up bicycle and often wears flip-flops, has been put in charge of managing the Galápagos Islands, one of the world’s environmental treasures. The government of Ecuador made the...
“There is no free lunch in Ecuador,” President Rafael said Tuesday during his annual report to the nation. “There will continue to be hardship and there will continue to be sacrifices as we rebuild from a devastating earthquake and recover from difficult economic...
President Rafael Correa presents what is likely to be his last report to the nation this morning in Quito. His office says that reconstruction of Ecuador’s earthquake-ravaged north coast will be the main topic. Correa will deliver the annual report with his popularity...
Ecuadorian Carla Perez successfully reached the top of Mr. Everest on Monday morning. She made history in the ascent of the 29,035-foot mountain by doing it without supplemental oxygen. Perez accomplished her feat following the deaths of four climbers within five days...
According to a recent survey, Ecuador ranks fourth in quality of infrastructure in Latin America, only behind Panama, Chile and Mexico. The survey, conducted by the InterAmerican Federation of Construction Industries as part of the Global Competitiveness Report for...
The U.S. has contributed $3 million in food, water and shelter to Ecuador earthquake victims according Michele Thoren Bond, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Consular Affairs. In addition, says Bond, a team of structural engineers are working with Ecuadorian...
In normal circumstances, the 6.7 and 6.8 magnitude earthquakes that struck the north coast just before 3 and at 11:46 Wednesday morning would have probably been the strongest seismic events of the year in Ecuador. As it was, they are being recorded as strong...
