Opinions
By Global Initiative staff Ecuador’s prison system has undergone a profound transformation over the past decade. According to a study by the Global Initiative Against Internation Crime, criminal groups in […]
There are a few things in life that can make even a tolerant person feel like banging a few heads together. One is the price of imported cheese in Ecuador. […]
By Cédric Durand The stock market valuation of AI-related firms has increased tenfold over the past decade. As John Lanchester noted recently, all but one of the world’s ten largest […]
By Caitlin Flanagan I turned 60 last week, and I feel vaguely embarrassed about it, like I’ve somehow let myself go, like I’ve been bingeing on decades and wound up […]
By Andrew Stuttaford In a recent article for National Review on neoprohibitionism, I touched on the controversy over a report on alcohol and health that had been commissioned by the […]
You can learn a lot about modern geopolitics by reading the news with a cup of coffee and the same suspicion you reserve for used-car salesmen. It began, as these […]
By Steven Boykey Sidley In early December, in a corner of Yunnan Province near the Myanmar border, something rather extraordinary happened. While most of the Western tech world was busy […]
By Ryan Zickgraf Fictional vampires are dark, dangerous, and, crucially, sexy. From Bela Lugosi’s hypnotic stare in the first Dracula film to the tortured emo vibe of Edward Cullen, the […]
By Cody C. Delistraty There’s a certain sinking feeling one gets when thinking of the perfect thing to say just a moment too late. Perhaps a witty parting word could […]
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 […]
























