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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 million gallons of crude oil and flared nearly 50 million cubic feet of methane...
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 accounts belonging to Indigenous and environmental groups-implemented...
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 and pundits said it. As did people on social media. Everyone knows what they meant —...
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 delivered a resounding “no” at the polls, blocking his plans to rewrite the...
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 salt, you’ll find people waving a fan of mixed CDs at your window. The CDs come in plastic...
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, in what may seem like a tipping point, the digital marketing firm...
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 wandered straight out of the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch — among them the...
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 perceptions, and countries long viewed as stable and...
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 country’s biggest crime gangs. It was one of the deadliest security operations in modern Brazilian...
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 communities and environmentalists have defended these rights, setting a...
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 entering our 3rd era as humans. Our first emergence was our transition from our primate...
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 underground in Yasuní National Park – one of the most biodiverse places on Earth and home to...
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 was the year the United Nations adopted the Refugee Convention, later expanded by the 1967 Protocol,...
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 his untimely death, and curiosity pushed me to learn who this fast-talking American really was. I began, as one...
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 2016, it has never met its 1,500-megawatt...
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 in “Her.” To many in Silicon Valley, this compelling...
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 girls for years. The public was rightly outraged. But as someone...
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 Bastille, more or less, ending it. More recently, with the end of Soviet communism, we...
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 experimentation with alternative lifestyles. “Peace!” greeted friends and...
By Mike Isaac In a scene in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” in 2014, a character who had just sold his idea to a fictional tech company that was a thinly veiled analogue to Google encountered some of his new colleagues day drinking on the roof in folding lawn chairs. They...
