In February elections, a referendum to protect water passed and left-wing candidates received strong support. Mining will be a key issue for the next president. This story is republished from NA...
https://latindispatch.com/2021/04/08/movement-against-mining-gains-ground-in-ecuador/
This story is republished from NACLA. Since the height of the pandemic in Ecuador’s largest coastal city, families have stood outside public hospitals with signs asking for the whereabouts of ...
https://latindispatch.com/2020/08/06/families-in-guayaquil-seek-answers-after-covid-19-deaths/
This article was originally publish on The Conversation. By Dennis Altman and Juan Carlos Valarezo. Dead bodies are lying at home and in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador, a city The post Deaths...
QUITO, Ecuador — Pamela Troya was preparing for an interview with a human rights defense organization in Quito in June when a fellow LGBT activist burst into the studio screaming. The post A...
https://latindispatch.com/2019/09/16/ecuador-gay-marriage-troya-correa/
QUITO — For two days in January, thousands of people mobilized on the main avenues of Quito, Guayaquil and several other cities in Ecuador, protesting sexual violence, femicide and xenophobia. ...
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: The transitory Citizens Participation and Social Control Council dismissed all nine justices of the nation’s highest court on the argument that there had been a ...
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA-BRAZIL-ECUADOR-PERU: The residents of a Brazilian border town with Venezuela, in the northern state of Roraima, attacked squatter camps of Venezuelan migrants ...
https://latindispatch.com/2018/08/20/venezuelan-migrants-attacked-brazil-stopped-reaching-ecuador/
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: Thehighest court upheld a sentence that requires U.S. oil giant Chevron to pay $9.5 billion in damages for decades polluting the rainforest. Oil operations The...
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR-UNITED STATES: The United States strong-armed Ecuador into backing off from proposing a resolution to promote breast-feeding during the United Nations-affiliated...
https://latindispatch.com/2018/07/10/u-s-menaced-ecuador-backing-off-u-n-breast-milk-resolution/
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: A judge issued an order on Tuesday for former president Rafael Correa’s capture and extradition from Belgium, where he has lived for the past year The post Ecua...