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By John Lindsay-Poland When the presidents of the United States and Mexico brought the two countries back from the edge of a trade war on Feb. 3, each made commitments to the other. Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum pledged to send 10,000 Mexican troops to the...
By Anonymous Why hasn´t religion faded away in the face of enormous scientific evidence that its claims are impossible? Every major religion was founded before science was invented. We now know that life after death is not possible, and that there is no heaven or hell...
By Sofía Jarrín Hidalgo On February 9, Ecuador held presidential elections against the backdrop of a political, economic, security, and social crisis. Ecuadorians will head back to the polls on April 13 for a decisive runoff election that could drastically shape the...
By Ana Lankes On Sunday Ecuadorians went to the polls for the third time in four years to elect a president and all 151 members of their legislature. Many polls, bookmakers and the markets had predicted a win for Daniel Noboa, the hip president who has only been in...
By Will Freeman For a moment on Sunday, the government of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro looked like it might be the first in Latin America to take a meaningful stand against President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation plans. Instead, Petro gave Trump the perfect opportunity...
By Jeronimo Giorgi We have overcome darker times before”, were the closing words of former Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Solís on October 4, addressing the decline of the democratic state in Latin America. For the eighth consecutive year, more countries...
The headline above is borrowed from a notice posted on a bookstore window in San Anselmo, California. More than a few news programs in the media recently sparkled with airbrushed images of despicable political louts facing serious legal trouble, followed by celebrity...
By Paul Theroux “Call this a govment! Why, just look at it and see what it’s like. … They call that govment! A man can’t get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just leave the country. … Says I, for two cents I’d leave the blamed...
By Will Freeman Donald Trump wants to roll back China’s growing footprint in Latin America. He isn’t above strong-arm tactics to do it. Just see his latest demand to reassume control of the Panama Canal, which a senior Trump appointee afterwards suggested was really...
By Scott Nover The internet feels like it’s falling apart. Not literally. Structurally, it’s sound. There are plenty of fiber optic cables lining ocean floors, cell towers looming above cityscapes, and server-filled data centers. But the very foundations of the...
By Keston Perry As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate crisis is on course to get much worse. While its effects, such as unprecedented flooding, devastating droughts, storm...
By Tom Blanchard A common complaint of Ecuador expats and potential expats is the difficulty in finding accurate weather forecasts. This is especially frustrating lately as we desperately need rain to end the drought – and the blackouts and fires the drought is...
The end of the world is not its destruction, but its translation into heaven. -- ACIM. To the caterpillar, the butterfly represents the end of the world. -- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now How do we make “sense” of this paradox? To some, the recent election in the USA...
I have always had a fascination with being a pioneer, exploring a relatively wild frontier. This was much of my instinct about leaving North America, forging a life in the Andean highlands of Ecuador. Never being a city person, but also never being a country person,...
By the Latin American Post staff The “Metástasis” case, which erupted in Ecuador in late 2023, is a powerful example of the devastating effects of corruption within a country’s judicial system. At the heart of the scandal is the alleged infiltration of organized crime...
By Pablo Stefanoni Distrust-enthusiasm-disappointment (more or less silent). The relationship between the Latin American left and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela has gone through different stages, in line with the dynamics of the Caribbean country itself. The...
By Kelly Beaucar Vlahos A top U.S. military general wants a "Marshall Plan" for Latin America but is likely more concerned about China's encroachment into America's backyard with "dual use" infrastructure than about what poor people in the Global South actually need....
When we’re at our farm in Cañar Province, an hour-and-a-half drive north of Cuenca, I have my morning coffee beside the banana trees in the back yard. The neighbors can see me from the road and we exchange “Buenos Diases.” Most of them are on foot but a few ride...
By Gabriela Mesones Rojo and Alicia Chen Last August, Ecuadorians made history by voting to permanently keep over 700 million barrels of crude oil in the ground beneath Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas on earth. This made Ecuador the first...
By Mariana Mazzucato When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres...
Week of September 06
U.S. sinkings of Ecuadorian fishing vessels trigger court scrutiny after 28 crew members are released.
Cuenca targets a November launch for its first new international link to Chiclayo.
Exports hit a quarterly record, but Ecuador’s import bill is rising even faster.
