Opinions
By Will Douglas Heaven Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry — and […]
By Katie Surma Over a quarter century in the Ecuadorian Amazon, oil giant Texaco (now Chevron) perpetrated an ecological disaster: It dumped 3.2 million gallons of toxic waste, spilled 17 […]
By Anand Sharma Human Rights Watch’s latest findings on Ecuador paint a troubling picture of a government increasingly willing to wield financial controls as political weapons. The freezing of bank […]
By Marc Silver When an armed mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and took over the building in 2021, many Americans said that’s what happens in “Third World” countries. TV journalists […]
By Latin American Post Staff On Sunday, President Daniel Noboa marks two years in power with bruises still fresh from his biggest political setback yet. Just a week earlier, Ecuadorians […]
By Nicole Ruf (with Lydia Lovell) On the drive from Quito to the coast, somewhere where the mountains start turning into hills, right before the road starts to smell like […]
By Francesco Agnellini The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, […]
By César Rodríguez-Garavito and Robert Macfarlane High in the Ecuadorean Andes is a cloud forest that is home to hundreds of endangered, extraordinary creatures, many of which seem to have […]
By Erich de la Fuente Organized crime is changing Latin America’s societal fabric. As the region’s most visible threat, the emergence of transnational crime organizations is rapidly reconfiguring some traditional […]
By Adriana Marin A massive anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro left 132 people dead in the early hours of October 28 as Brazil’s security forces confronted one of the […]
By Katie Surma In 2008, Ecuador made history by enshrining the rights of nature in its constitution, recognizing ecosystems as living entities with legal rights. For nearly two decades, Indigenous […]
By Louis Bourgeois The essence of my mission of service I call Conscious Living. And this whole teaching is predicated on the evolution of consciousness. In a nutshell, we are […]
By Kevin Koenig Two years ago, Ecuador surprised the world with a historic referendum: more than 58% of the population voted to keep nearly one billion barrels of crude oil […]
If you’ve ever wondered why most rich countries seem to accept migrants as if their hands were tied, the answer lies in a yellowing piece of paper from 1951. That […]
I’ll admit something that may sound odd in this wired world: until a few days ago, I had never heard of Charlie Kirk. His name only reached me because of […]
By Allen Panchana Nineteen years after construction first began, and following investments of more than $3.2 billion, Ecuador’s giant Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant remains an unfulfilled promise. Operational since […]
By Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu Building a machine more intelligent than ourselves. It’s a centuries-old theme, inspiring equal amounts of awe and dread, from the agents in “The Matrix” to the operating system […]
By Jonathan Mason When the Jeffrey Epstein case exploded into the headlines, it shocked the world: a billionaire with an alleged network of powerful friends, accused of systematically exploiting underage […]
By B. Duncan Moench The era of liberal democracy has passed without much fanfare. With feudalism’s fall, historians could point to Luther beginning the process and the Fall of the […]
In the summer of ‘69 my younger brother Francis and I arrived in Tucson after a cross-country trip from Philadelphia. In the annals of American history, that summer characterized youthful […]
























