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By Gavin Voss Massive operations by Ecuador’s military against illegal mining following a historic massacre will do little to slow one of the country’s most lucrative criminal economies. Ecuador has deployed 1,800 soldiers to the country’s Amazon region, the army...
In Cuenca, pharmacies are like bus stops. There’s always another one just down the street — and sometimes three or four clustered together like gossiping hens. It’s not uncommon to see five within sight of each other, each offering the same range of off-brand...
By Sarah Birke Two weeks ago in El Boletín I wrote about President Nayib Bukele’s government’s relationship with Salvadorean gang leaders. El Faro, an online newspaper, had published video interviews in which gang members alleged that Mr Bukele had struck deals with...
By Luis Carlos Córdova-Alarcón After achieving control in the National Assembly, President Daniel Noboa sent the draft "Organic Law to dismantle the criminal economy linked to the internal armed conflict", describing it as urgent economic to accelerate its approval....
If you tell people today that they are being watched, most of them shrug. Some even smile. Surveillance has moved from a threat to a service, from a badge of oppression to a badge of convenience. George Orwell imagined a world where Big Brother kept constant watch to...
By Frank Bruni Like many people I know, I decided about a month ago to get a new iPhone. President Trump’s tariff threats, tariff realities and tariff tempestuousness portended higher prices, and I was due anyway. My old iPhone’s bells and whistles were at this point...
By Latin American Post staff A tragic ambush in Ecuador’s Amazon region has left eleven soldiers and one alleged insurgent dead, spotlighting the deadly nexus between illegal gold mining and organized crime. As insecurity rises, calls for urgent economic reforms and...
One of the more curious subspecies of expats is the small but noisy contingent that is utterly obsessed with the price of things; more specifically, they are obsessed with the notion that they are being over-charged by Ecuadorians and that other expats are complicit...
By Luis Córdova-Alarcón Ecuador is at war. This was decided by the government of Daniel Noboa on January 9, 2024. On that day, after a wave of criminal violence in several provinces, the President issued Executive Decree 111, recognizing the existence of an internal...
By Jonathan Mason The Ecuadorian government, according to a report in El Universo, is considering reinstating a $42 tariff on all 4x4 imports — packages under 4 kilograms and valued below $400. While the move may be intended to protect domestic businesses and boost...
By Gina Yauri On April 13, 37-year-old businessman Daniel Noboa, one of the world’s youngest presidents, was re-elected president of Ecuador. Noboa came to office winning 55.62 per cent of the vote in a runoff election against Luisa González, the opposition candidate...
By R. Evan Ellis From April 22 to 25, I had the opportunity to travel to Quito to address an international forum on China and Latin America, held by the prestigious San Francisco of Quito University and FLACSO Ecuador. My participation in the event also enabled me to...
A century of Titanic investigation has ignored a vital question: were key crew members impaired by drink on the night of the disaster?
By Lachlan Brown Growing up without social media means your worldview is untouched by likes, shares, or viral trends. Instead, it’s shaped by direct experiences, personal interactions, and self-reflection. As someone who belongs to the generation before the social...
By Jennifer Szalai Elon Musk predicts that a million Earthlings will be living on Mars in 20 years — not just for the exciting adventure but as a matter of survival: “We must preserve the light of consciousness by becoming a space-faring civilization & extending...
By Mawuna Remarque Koutonin In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat.” What is an expat? And who is an expat? According to...
By Kevin Koenig Coastal communities in Ecuador are still reeling from a devastating oil spill on March 13, which dumped over 25,000 barrels of crude oil into rivers and protected areas in the northwestern province of Esmeraldas. The spill blackened rivers, streams,...
By Melissa Kirsch If you sit close enough to the front of the theater for “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, you can see Paul Mescal spit and sweat as he stalks the stage as Stanley Kowalski, an artist doing his work in real time and space....
By Andrew Nikiforuk Ray Kurzweil, who is 76, wears the latest in Silicon Valley fashion: a Mickey Mouse watch, colourful suspenders and a righteous belief that humans should be able to live forever. For two decades the inventor, futurist, computer geek and Google...
By Joseph Earp As much as I have the general vibe of a luddite (strange hobbies, socially maladjusted, unfathomable fashion choices, etc) I have to hand it to automation: it’s nice that computers have made some boring things in our lives less boring. I side with the...
