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Joint military and police operations by Ecuador and Colombia against drug traffickers are producing dramatic results. Launched last weekend, following the murders of three Ecuadorian journalists, more than 100 suspects have been arrested or detained on both sides of...
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Monday that the Pacific Alliance plans to add new members and Ecuador may be interested in joining. The alliance is a trade organization that currently consists of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Ecuador President...
The Venezuelan National Assembly approved preliminary impeachment proceedings against Nicolás Maduro with 105 votes in favor (and 2 against), citing enough evidence linking him to acts of corruption regarding the Odebrecht scandal. Although the step opens debate in...
Only days after a three journalists were murdered by drug traffickers, an Ecuadorian couple has been taken hostage near the Colombian border. It is unclear whether the abduction took place in Colombia or Ecuador, or where the couple is being held. In a Tuesday...
The Óliver Sinisterra Front issued a statement Monday saying it has stopped efforts to return the bodies of three Ecuadorian journalists. The front, which controls drug production and trafficking operations in southwest Colombia, has taken responsibility for the...
Supporters of former president Rafael Correa are being blasted by disability and human rights organizations for referring to President Lenin Moreno as a “cripple.” During an April 10 protest march in Quito, the Correistas chanted “se va a caer, se va caer, el patuleco...
Ecuador military operations have resulted in 43 arrests of suspected drug traffickers in Esmeraldas Province. Most of the arrests were made near the town of Mataje, where army and special police units conducted door-to-door raids of 91 buildings. The arrests are part...
US Vice President Mike Pence told a summit of leaders in America on Saturday that more needs to be done to isolate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that Washington "will not sit idly by while the country collapses. US Vice President calls for more measures to...
Ecuadorian and Colombian forces are intensifying their hunt for the leader of the group that has taken credit for the murders of three members of an Ecuadorian press team. A group of former FARC guerrillas that has taken claim for the murders of the press team from...
President Lenin Moreno has confirmed that two Ecuadorian journalists and their driver have been murdered by their kidnappers in southern Colombia. He made the announcement early Friday afternoon following confirmation of photographic evidence by the national police....
President Lenin Moreno returned to Quito Thursday night following reports that three Ecuadorian journalists kidnapped by a Colombian drug gang have been murdered. Shortly after his return from Lima where he had planned to attend the Summit of the Americas, Moreno gave...
As a lifelong real estate developer, my career began on the job site as a carpenter, evolved through business education into project management, and eventually running the company. Nowadays I am as good with spreadsheets, computers and paperwork as I was back in the...
A court in Ecuador has threatened to seek an international arrest warrant for Colombia’s former military commander for a 2008 bombing that killed a FARC leader in the neighboring country. The bombing also killed four Mexican students. The court of the Ecuadorian...
It is difficult for me to describe the moment. It was like being doused with hard rain while hurrying home before a building thunderstorm. Or, like the moment you realized while reading the second-to-last chapter of a novel, that this story will not have a happy...
U.S. ambassador to Ecuador Todd Chapman says changes in Ecuador’s economic and foreign policies opens the door for new avenues of cooperation with the U.S. Chapman made the comments last week when he hosted a delegation of 13 U.S. congressmen in Quito, introducing...
President Lenin Moreno said Thursday that a policy of “extreme permissiveness” is partly to blame for the recent violence on Ecuador’s border with Colombia. At the same time, he said his government is doing all it can to bring home three kidnapped journalists. "A...
As part of the deficit reduction plan announced Monday by President Lenin Moreno, the national 12 percent IVA tax will be applied to all private insurance policies in Ecuador. The tax will affect an estimated 940,000 home, health, accident and life insurance policy...
Ecuador’s Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (Cpccs) has ordered an investigation into possible corruption in large construction projects during the presidency of Rafael Correa. At the same meeting Wednesday, the council placed a freeze on all...
For the first time since their abduction March 26, two Ecuadorian journalists and their driver appeared on a video to deliver their captors’ demands. The three were kidnapped near the Colombian border while covering the story of the cross-border drug trafficking...
By Joel Simon Ecuador’s new president, Lenin Moreno, took office in May 2017 with a pledge to uphold press freedom, declaring in his inauguration speech, “There can’t be dialogue without freedom of expression.” These words would be unremarkable if not for the fact...
