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Ecuador

July 2024

  • File picture of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio campaigning in Quito

    Five jailed over assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio

  • Illustration with composite images from Ecuador including an Indigenous man, trains, forest and an oil can

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence

  • The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wearing orange overalls and a white hard hat, holds up his oil-covered hands to the camera.

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier

  • A white and gray heron flies over a river beside trees

    Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital

June 2024

  • Two buses travel on a main road during a blackout in Quito.

    Ecuador struck by power outage leaving 18 million in the dark

  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again

    Nemonte Nenquimo
  • Europol, Spain’s Guardia Civil, Croatia’s drug control unit and Brazilian police shake hands at press conference

    Europol smashes Balkan cartel shipping drugs from South America

  • Pile of cocaine with images from Ecuador in the background

    Bloodlines
    ‘The cocaine superhighway’: how death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to Europe

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Where do sharks hang out?’: the race to find safe spaces for the Galápagos’ ocean-going predators

  • The age of extinction
    ‘More profitable than farming’: how Ecuador’s birding boom is benefiting wildlife

May 2024

  • Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo, carries her people’s lawsuit in her hands during a march towards the Provincial courthouse in Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon.

    Book of the day
    We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson review – voice of the Amazon

    There’s great joy as well as pain in this luminous story of Indigenous life and the battle against exploitation
  • Piles of red paper bags with black hexagons on them.

    Our unequal earth
    Latin America labels ultra-processed foods. Will the US follow?

    In 2010, Mexico led the way, followed by Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia
  • 0Leonela Moncayo, 14, sitting in a red plastic chair.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’: schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares

    A group of determined teenagers has taken the government to court for not doing more to protect their community from the noxious byproduct of oil extraction in the northern Amazon

April 2024

  • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’: animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

  • A person stands next to boxes with electoral kits ahead of the referendum, on 10 April in Quito, Ecuador.

    Ecuadoreans to vote in referendum on unprecedented security measures

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

  • A woman lights candles in her store after a programed power cut ordered by the ministry of energy, in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Ecuador faces electricity rationing due to a prolonged drought and high temperatures that have reduced flows to the main hydroelectric plants. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

    Ecuador rations power as Andean drought tightens grip

  • Mexico calls on UN to expel Ecuador over embassy raid as tensions soar

  • Mexican president releases footage of ‘despicable’ raid on embassy in Ecuador

  • Ecuador’s arrested former vice-president taken to hospital

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