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To talk about the current drama in Ecuador, I would first like to start by expressing the shame I feel every time I read or listen these days to opinions about “Correa’s corrupt government”...

https://www.pressenza.com/2024/01/ecuador-loves-life/

Latin American leaders, dismayed by the wave of violence by armed groups, express solidarity with President Daniel Noboa. By Lizzette Vela The convulsive situation in Ecuador has provoked a casca...

https://www.pressenza.com/2024/01/latin-american-governments-condemn-wave-of-violence-in-ecuador/

December 2nd marked the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed US dominion over Latin America and the Caribbean. Left-leaning governments in the hemisphere have had to contest...

https://www.pressenza.com/2023/12/ear-2023-in-review-for-latin-american-and-the-caribbean-contesting-a-still-dominant-us-hegemon/

“Does humanity still have a chance?” I asked here on January 31, 2023 and at the end of the article I referred to the book “Pluriversum – A Lexicon of the Good Life for All”. It will no...

https://www.pressenza.com/2023/09/a-good-life-for-all-pluriversum-hopeful-voices-from-around-the-world/

The candidate of Revolución Ciudadana won the first round of the elections with more than 33% of the votes, and in the run-off ballot she will be able to add votes from indigenous and progressiv...

https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/luisa-gonzalez-on-her-way-to-becoming-the-first-woman-president-of-ecuador/

In a historic referendum, citizens of Ecuador voted to stop oil drilling in the land of uncontacted peoples, inside Yasuni National Park. “The Ecuadorian people, aware of the value of their liv...

https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/ecuador-block-drilling-in-yasuni-park/

With only two weeks to go before the Popular Consultation and the early national elections, last week Ecuador experienced a new escalation of criminal violence, led by gangs linked to drug traffi...

https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/ecuador-between-criminal-violence-and-popular-consultation/

Interview with the Ecuadorian Anthropology Network and Collective of Anthropologists What is the opinion of the Ecuadorian Anthropology Network on what happened during the second day of dialogue ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2022/07/second-day-of-dialogues-a-look-from-the-network-of-ecuadorian-anthropology-and-collective-of-anthropologists/

“Stop the massacre” was the cry that ran through tears, pain and indignation on the twelfth day of the #ParoNacional2022. By Carlos Crespo “We have had a very difficult day”; “it has be...

https://www.pressenza.com/2022/06/ecuador-stop-the-massacre/

Ninth day of mobilizations everywhere in Ecuadorian territory. The one which registers a massive resistance and against state repression. Next to one of the Peace Centres located in Quito, in the...

https://www.pressenza.com/2022/06/9th-day-of-national-strike-in-ecuador/

News in progress by Radio Temblor Internacional In the early hours of Tuesday 14 June, the National Police and the Armed Forces of Ecuador arrested the indigenous leader Leonidas Iza after the st...

https://www.pressenza.com/2022/06/ecuador-national-strike-guillermo-lasso-criminalises-social-protest/

Latin America is one of the most urbanised areas on the planet, with 82% of people living in cities. It concentrates 17% of its urban population in just six megacities, each with more than 10 mil...

https://www.pressenza.com/2022/01/integrating-architecture/

“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us” – Jean-Paul Sartre  Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Bri...

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/12/the-judicial-kidnapping-of-julian-assange/

The lead up to the second round elections in Ecuador have been marked by misinformation campaigns, a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases and fears of manipulation and fraud. On April 11, Andrés Ara...

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/04/rising-tensions-ahead-of-second-round-elections-in-ecuador/

Around midnight, Quito time,  the candidate of the Citizen Revolution,  Andrés Arauz and the candidate of Pachakutik,  Yaku Pérez, were leading the presidential elections that took place on ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/02/ecuador-with-50-of-the-votes-counted-andres-arauz-and-yaku-perez-would-go-to-the-second-round/

A little over 13 million Ecuadorans are electing this Sunday a new President, renewing the 137-seat National Assembly and choosing lawmakers for the Andean Parliament. There are 16 presidential c...

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/02/ecuador-elects-a-new-president/

A ‘Voting at Home’ drill in Ecuador verified the procedures of this type of elections, with nine days remaining until the general elections scheduled for February 7th. The process took place ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/01/ecuador-checks-voting-at-home-procedures-for-2021-elections/

Ecuador’s progressive movement, the Union for Hope (UNES), is carrying out a strong promotional campaign, after officially presenting its electoral platform for the elections slated for Februar...

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/01/ecuadors-progressive-force-presents-campaign-for-the-2021-elections/

“We must celebrate the sentence … but with great caution,”. In this interview, Fidel Narvaez, former consul of Ecuador in London tells us about the resolution that denies the extradition of...

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/01/julian-assange-behind-the-sentence-there-has-been-great-social-pressure-according-to-fidel-narvaez/

Data helps the public understand where help is most Indigenous Amazonian populations in Ecuador can now see how COVID-19 is affecting their communities through a platform designed and updated b...

https://www.pressenza.com/2020/08/ecuadors-indigenous-amazonian-peoples-launch-online-covid-19-tracker/

On July 20, the National Electoral Council of Ecuador announced the suspension of four political organizations and with it, their inability to participate in next year’s general elections. One ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2020/07/ecuador-obstacles-for-rafael-correa-and-his-party-to-participate-in-next-years-elections/

The IMF is backing a tax reform bill in Ecuador that will enable capital flight and further austerity. Lara Merling for openDemocracy Over the past year, a rebranded IMF returned to Latin America...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/12/after-the-argentina-debacle-the-imf-endorses-weakening-capital-controls-in-ecuador/

Txema Guijarro has been a deputy for Podemos and is running again in the elections on November 10. Of Ecuadorian nationality, his relationship with South America is permanent. In this interview, ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/11/the-mobilizations-are-the-resistance-of-the-peoples-to-a-neoliberal-agenda-according-to-txema-guijarro-of-podemos/

When, after 11 days of strong social mobilization, Decree 883 was repealed and the beginning of a broad dialogue between the government and the indigenous movement was announced, the issue ceased...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/11/nelsy-lizarazo-speaking-from-ecuador-now-we-know-who-we-are/

Ecuadorian President Lenin Boltaire Moreno insists that the mobilisations against the “Paquetazo” were encouraged from the political sector that responds to former President Rafael Correa, i...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/10/ecuador-brief-notes-after-the-dialogues-between-president-moreno-and-conaie/

Ecuador: nonviolent sounds and gestures, Once declared the curfew from 3pm in Quito, capital of Ecuador, the action of the public force was maintained with force until the end of the afternoon, e...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/10/ecuador-nonviolent-sounds-and-gestures-close-the-tenth-day-of-protests/

Pictures: Marcelo Rivera, William Tipán and Walker Vizcarra Video: Walker Vizcarra Ecuador has had 9 days of protests and paralysis at the national level, after having ordered the elimination of...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/10/ecuador-resistance-goes-on/

We were censored. They censored me. The programme that we have been doing for five years on Radio Pichincha Universal cannot broadcast by order of President Lenin Moreno. This affront occurs afte...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/10/ecuadorian-state-censores-international-pressenza-radio-en-la-oreja-in-the-ear/

Today, October 9, the day of the National Strike, the afternoon ended with a tweet from President Moreno rejoicing at the beginning of the dialogues with “the indigenous brothers”; a press co...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/10/ecuador-between-cynicism-and-opportunism-we-still-have-dignity/

By Fluxus Foto After the official announcement of the new economic measures, mainly the liberation of the subsidy to the prices of the extra gasoline and diesel, the union of transporters at nati...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/10/ecuador-national-strike-the-cry-of-the-people-in-the-streets/

Interview with Chilean journalist and activist Patricio Mery Bell on the current situation in Ecuador. Do you find that the prosecutions of Dilma Rousseff, Lula and Christina Kirchner were also u...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/07/europes-closed-eyes-on-the-political-prisoner-jorge-glas/

“We knew he was in real danger, as will be confirmed now; and that’s why we granted him political asylum. Right then the US obviously decided that Ecuador had crossed a line.” Interview wit...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/07/granting-julian-assange-political-asylum-was-the-right-thing-to-do/

By Mike Head The United Nations special rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joe Cannataci, was finally permitted yesterday to meet with Julian Assange inside London’s Belmarsh prison. The WikiL...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/04/un-official-visits-julian-assange-investigating-ecuadors-illegal-surveillance/

The pro military dictatorship president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has offered his country’s genocide victims the possibility of continuing the impunity by stopping the identification of bodies...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/04/denialism-and-lawfare-by-the-stick-in-brazil/

Today, Quito woke up as cold as usual, but that was not the first thing that Ecuadorians noticed when their alarms went off.  At 5 a.m., Ecuadorian time, President Lenín Moreno announced to eve...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/04/julian-assange-a-sense-of-the-reaction-in-quito-ecuador/

“Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder was granted refuge in 2012 while on bail in the UK over sexual assault allegations against him...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/04/julian-assange-arrested-at-the-ecuadorian-embassy/

Lawyers for Julian Assange have filed an urgent application to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), based in Washington D.C., to direct the Trump Administration to unseal the ch...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/01/assange-takes-legal-action-to-force-trump-administration-to-reveal-charges-against-him/

Remarks at the Ecuadorian Consulate in Queens on Friday, January 18, 2019 Thank you to the New York chapter of the Ecuadorian Confederation of Journalists for organizing this celebration of journ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/01/by-working-to-free-julian-assange-we-are-fighting-for-justice/

It has been almost 7 years since Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to escape the extradition of the British authorities. If he steps outside the embassy door, he will...

https://www.pressenza.com/2019/01/assanges-martyrdom-has-no-end-in-sight/

The Guardian, Washington Post and New York Times have been publishing a stream of deliberate lies, in collusion with the security services. The idea of the “liberal media” no longer exists in...

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/12/the-guardian-publishes-still-more-blatant-mi6-lies-on-j-assange/

In a statement issued Sunday, WikiLeaks announced that the Ecuadorian embassy in London has informed its publisher Julian Assange that it intends to partially restore his ability to use the Inter...

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/10/ecuador-to-partially-restore-julian-assanges-access-to-communications-and-visitors/

GUILLAUME LONG 27 July 2018 for openDemocracy/democraciaAbierta Six years after Assange walked into its embassy, Ecuador’s initial fears of political persecution, far from being ill-founded par...

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/07/ecuadors-case-for-assanges-asylum-is-stronger-than-ever/

On this show we speak with filmmaker Flavia Fontes. We discuss  her unusual process and journey in making a documentary about former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa. “Our President: Raf...

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/07/face-2-face-with-flavia-fontes/

21 July 2018 (SPUTNIK)* — Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno is not planning to meet with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who resides in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, during the president...

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/07/ecuador-to-withdraw-asylum-for-assange-reports/

By Oscar Grenfell The London-based Times newspaper reported yesterday that the British and Ecuadorian governments have been holding secret discussions on plans to evict WikiLeaks editor Julian ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/07/british-and-ecuadorian-authorities-in-talks-to-evict-julian-assange-from-london-embassy/

by Paul Craig Roberts, July 4, 2018 the original article can be found here   As President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa was a Godsend for the Ecuadorian people, for Latin American independence and ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/07/washington-moves-against-rafael-correa/

We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. by NOAM CHOMSKY, CHRIS HEDGES, JOHN PILGER, ET AL. First published on Counterpunch April 2, 2018.   ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/04/isolation-julian-assange-must-stop/

On Saturday, 28th of October, more than 25 organisations and collectives developing projects and actions to overcome violence and discrimination, contributing to the construction of a culture of ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2017/10/6th-nonviolent-initiatives-fair-quito-ecuador/

The second cycle of peace talks between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Colombian government has ended today in the Ecuadorian capital, with significant achievements by both sides. In ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2017/07/eln-colombia-second-cycle-talks-closes-valuable-achievements/

PRESS RELEASE DiEM25 Sunday, April 23 On Sunday, April 23, DiEM25 co-founder, Yanis Varoufakis had a 2-hour meeting with top economic officials of the government (including the Minister of Econom...

https://www.pressenza.com/2017/05/diem25-co-founder-yanis-varoufakis-meets-ecuadors-president-elect-lenin-moreno-official-visit/

Nestled amid the Andean mountains, Cuenca — Ecuador’s third largest city — has long been known for its bounteous sources of fresh water. This is thanks to its privileged location within the...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/11/meet-ecuadors-water-protectors/

For almost six years Julian Assange has been a political prisoner of three countries (Sweden, UK and USA) whose laws prohibit political imprisonment and whose mainstream media pretend to be heral...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/11/julian-assange-political-prisoner/

By Santiago Bolaños. In the context of the Habitat III conference that finished today in Quito, Ecuador, mayors from different parts of the world presented the initiative “A seat at the Global...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/10/mayors-seek-seat-global-table/

A report published in the Andina Newspaper confirms that “Peru and Ecuador have destroyed over 10,500 anti-personnel landmines placed during the countries’ military conflict as part of humani...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/10/peru-ecuador-destroyed-10000-landmines-along-border/

Viewpoint by Nelsy Lizarazo, for InDepthNews. I visited to San Pablo 15 years ago and it was clearly the poorest neighbourhood of Portoviejo, the regional capital of Manabí Province. Then, there...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/09/people-key-ecuadors-sustainable-development-goals/

Leftist leader says growth “that favors the poor, growth with social justice, growth with equity,” worthy of pursuit byAndrea Germanos, staff writer for Common Dreams Ecuadoran president Raf...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/08/ecuadors-correa-neoliberalism-not-socialism-failed/

On Saturday, the 2nd of July, at 2.30pm, hundreds of people met in the centre of Quito to celebrate the LGBTI Pride March.  Men and women of all ages and sexual orientations marched to the sound...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/07/lgbti-pride-march-quito-ecuador/

Today, Julian Assange told average citizens to not be too scared at the prospect of online privacy being invaded at the event, “Julian Assange: 4 years of denied freedom” organised by Interna...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/06/assange-big-brother-surveillance-dont-scared/

A visibly moved and verbally grateful Julian Assange, spoke today, live via video conference to an audience in Quito, Ecuador at the headquarters of the International Higher Education Centre for ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/06/less-0-002-panama-papers-made-public-assange-denounces/

This week marks the start of Julian Assange’s fifth year in residence at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, after charges of rape were brought against him in Sweden.  Fearing that the Swedish a...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/06/chomsky-thank-assange-courage-integrity/

At an event today in Quito, Ecuador, “A group hug in rejection of homophobic deaths,” our editor, Tony Robinson was asked to speak from a point of view of nonviolence. Sunday’s event in whi...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/06/group-hug-rejection-homophobic-deaths/

How the oil giant made itself a victim—and launched a nearly unprecedented legal offensive—after poisoning a region and its people by Nick Meynen for Common Dreams With pockets deep enough, y...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/05/shock-awe-chevron-way/

Ecuadorian students in the UK have set up a crowd funding page in the hopes of raising much needed funds to support humanitarian efforts following last Saturday’s earthquake. Some 570 people we...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/04/ecuadorian-students-uk-raise-funds-earthquake-survivors/

By Nelsy Lizarazo. Universal or global citizenship is, according to the Dictionary of Humanitarian Action a principle, category or condition thanks to which anyone in any part of the world may be...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/03/global-citizenship-ecuador-gap-principle-practice/

On Saturday 19th of March the 5th annual Slutwalk (la Marcha de las Putas) took place in Quito, Ecuador. Hundreds of men, women, boys and girls, young and old marched through the streets of Quito...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/03/slutwalk-quito-ecuador-2016/

Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, addressed the members of the assembled press in a short conference at the CELEC summit taking place in Ecuador today, before returning to talks dealing ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/01/president-of-colombia-hails-progress-made-in-the-resolution-of-50-years-of-civil-war/

As 33 heads of state and their representatives meet in Ecuador, just outside Quito in a town called the Middle of the World (Mitad del Mundo), the world’s press gathers to take photos.  After ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/01/photos-from-the-celac-summit/

33 Heads of State or their official representatives arrived at the UNASUR headquarters from 6.30am this morning to be greeted by their host in a colourful and musical welcome. Taking place in the...

https://www.pressenza.com/2016/01/president-rafael-correa-of-ecuador-opens-the-celac-summit/

Stop oil drilling in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park! Ecuador’s government is about to issue yet another oil drilling license in Yasuní National Park – one of the most biodiverse places on...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/12/stop-oil-drilling-in-ecuadors-yasuni-national-park/

Few days ago, during the 361st session of the Ecuador National Assembly, a Resolution was passed in favour of banning nuclear weapons, prepared in collaboration with the International Campaign to...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/12/interview-with-tony-robinson-about-ecuador-passing-a-nuclear-resolution/

Yesterday, in the Hall of the Former Presidents, in the National Assembly of Ecuador, a public forum took place with the title “Towards a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty”.  It’s of great import...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/12/nuclear-weapons-never-again/

On the 15th of December, during the 361st session of the Ecuador National Assembly, a Resolution was passed in favour of banning nuclear weapons, prepared in collaboration with the International ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/12/aprobacion-de-resolucion-por-un-tratado-internacional-de-prohibicion-de-armas-nucleares-en-imagenes/

On the 15th of December 2015, the National Assembly of the Republic of Ecuador approved by a vote of 82 in favor, 1 against and 23 abstentions, a resolution that clearly underlines the urgency of...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/12/ecuador-parliament-approves-a-resolution-to-ban-nuclear-weapons/

By Rafael Ziegler for Big Jump Challenge In this interview, we spoke with H.E. Jorge Jurado, the first ‘water minister’ of Ecuador from 2008-2010 and since then Ambassador of Ecuador in Berli...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/12/interview-a-water-vision-from-ecuador/

Ecuador was today notified by the Annulment Committee of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the final decision regarding the request for annulment of an awa...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/11/ecuador-to-pay-1-billion-dollars-in-compensation-to-us-oil-company/

October 12, on the International Day of Indigenous Resistance, Carlos Perez Guartambel (President of ECUARUNARI, the organization of Kichwa Peoples in Ecuador) entered Ecuador with a Kichwa passp...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/10/president-of-ecuarrunari-carlos-perez-guartambel-enterse-ecuador-with-an-indigenous-organization-issued-passport/

The German Ecuador Solidarity group, EcuaSoli, participated with political placards in two Ecuadorian concerts which took place in the German capital. On the 28th of June, hundreds of Germans and...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/07/berlin-civil-society-shows-its-support-for-the-government-of-ecuador/

The Afectados New short documentary starring Julie Christie highlights chronic Amazon pollution as oil giant Chevron fights $9.5 billion fine Amazon Watch: “One of the worst environmental disas...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/06/new-film-highlights-ecuadors-fight-with-chevron-over-amazon-contamination/

Quito, May 30 (Andes).- The Swedish consultancy firm Kreab presented its report “Ecuador y la Revolucion Ciudadana, un camino hacia el buen vivr” (Ecuador and its Citizen Revolution, a path t...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/05/international-consultancy-firm-cites-ecuador-as-an-example-of-economic-management-in-times-of-crisis-president-correa-points-out/

Quito, Abril 1 (Andes).- A new forensic analysis appears to completely undermine the testimony of Chevron’s star witness in the Ecuador pollution case and suggests the oil company falsified evi...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/04/ecuador-forensic-analysis-throws-argument-of-fraudulent-ruling-out-the-window-for-chevron/

Guayaquil,  March 14 (Andes).- President Rafael Correa described as positive, the ruling of the International Court of Justice against the lawsuit of Chevron that wanted Ecuador to pay for the ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/03/president-rafael-correa-highlights-ruling-of-the-international-court-in-favor-of-ecuador/

Quito, March 14 (Andes).-President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, said on Saturday the meeting of foreign ministers of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) will be held this afternoon in Quit...

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/03/president-of-ecuador-highlights-meeting-of-unsaur-in-quito-to-discuss-the-position-of-venezuela/

Quito (Prensa Latina).- With the inauguration of the new headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) a few steps from the equinoctial line that divides the world in two halves, E...

https://www.pressenza.com/2014/12/ecuador-core-south-american-integration/

Court Rejects Ecuador’s Request to Remove Arbitrators in Chevron Case Correa Claims Mediators Have Not Acted in “Fair, Impartial” Ways November 26, 2014 On Friday, November 21, the Permanen...

https://www.pressenza.com/2014/12/court-rejects-ecuadors-request-chevron-case/

Quito, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) President Rafael Correa urged today to improve pensions in the rural sector until they match those in the urban sector, and reiterated his government’s support to ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2014/08/correa-urges-improve-pensions-rural-sector/

Quito, May 6 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of 11 Latin American countries promoted here today to the creation of a regional observatory that will allow nations defending against arbitrations an...

https://www.pressenza.com/2014/05/creation-multinational-observatory-promoted-ecuador/

By Jim Lobe  for IPS WASHINGTON, Mar 5 2014 (IPS) – In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spilla...

https://www.pressenza.com/2014/03/chevron-wins-latest-round-ecuador-pollution-case/

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez for Democracy Now! A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuad...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/12/indigenous-groups-win-right-seize-chevrons-canadian-assets-18-billion-amazon-pollution/

Basis to support Ecuador in its fight against the transnational Chevron The U.S. multinational company Chevron has launched a campaign against Ecuador and those affected by the pollution caused b...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/12/network-transnational-companies-dirty-hand/

QUITO, Aug 24 2013 (IPS) – The Ecuadorean government’s decision to allow oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas of the planet, has caused alarm among envi...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/08/civil-society-calls-for-vote-on-drilling-in-ecuadors-yasuni-park/

ECUADOR, 2/7/2013 Government promotes project that seeks to recover and protect heritage cities. “People have the right to fully enjoy the city and its public spaces — under the principles of...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/08/cities-and-good-living/

Foto: Andes Ecuador has irrevocably and unilaterally renounced its trade preference relationship with the USA, Fernando Alvarado, the Communication Minister reported in a press conference. “In ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/06/ecuador-gives-up-her-trade-preference-status-with-the-us-condemning-it-as-blackmail/

By Martin Khor* | IDN-InDepth NewsReport Leaders of several Latin American countries have set up a new coalition to coordinate actions to face the growing number of international legal suits bein...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/06/latin-america-new-coalition-of-countries-to-take-on-the-multinationals/

Nearly 1000 parliamentarians from approximately 150 parliaments, meeting at the 128th Assembly of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Quito, Ecuador from Mar 22-27, agreed to the topic “Towa...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/03/nuclear-weapons-free-world-focus-of-2014-assembly-of-the-inter-parliamentary-union/

Good planning is one of the main reasons for success of the Ecuadorian Government in its six years in office. To continue on this road of improvement in quality of life for Ecuadorian families, t...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/03/ecuador-the-challenges-for-the-2013-2017-good-living-plan/

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has won the country’s presidential election for the third term, with thousands of supporters gathering at the presidential palace in the capital, Quito, to ce...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/02/correa-re-elected-as-ecuadors-president/

The electoral campaign in Ecuador enters its last week today, returning in recent days to the uneventful and peaceful climate that has dominated the entire process after being shaken last Monday ...

https://www.pressenza.com/2013/02/ecuador-polls-show-correa-will-win-next-weeks-elections/

As Ecuador offers asylum to Julian Assange at its London Embassy with the Foreign Office doing Olympic-size legal somersaults to try to justify storming it, we hear that both the UK and the US ha...

https://www.pressenza.com/2012/08/why-democracy-needs-assanges/