News of ecuador

51 inmates die in Colombia prison riot and fire

28-06-2022 17:19 At least 51 inmates have died after a fire broke out during a prison riot in southwestern Colombia.

Protesters reject Ecuador president's 'insensitive' fuel price cut

27-06-2022 13:32 Unrest continues as indigenous protesters reject a fuel price cut announced by the government as insufficient and "insensitive."

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso to visit Argentina next week

15-04-2022 11:34 With the objective of expanding trade links with the region, Lasso will begin an official visit to Argentina Sunday and meet with President Alberto Fernández the following morning.

Odebrecht corruption scandal: disgraced Ecuador and Peru leaders freed

11-04-2022 11:27 Ecuador's former vice president Jorge Glas and Peru's ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, both involved with the Brazilian Odebrecht corruption scandal, have been freed

Will 2022 be a year of consolidation for Latin America’s left?

14-01-2022 02:04 Three of the four Latin American presidential elections held last year were won by progressive candidates – and similar scenes could be repeated in Brazil and Colombia in the next 12 months.

by Clarisa Demattei*

Ecuador makes Covid vaccine obligatory for those aged over five

23-12-2021 20:33 Ecuador becomes the first country to make coronavirus vaccines obligatory for children as young as five, following the arrival of the Omicron variant.

Drugs, crime and protests: Ecuador stares into the abyss

25-10-2021 12:44 Emboldened drug traffickers, hundreds of deaths in prisons, a government dogged by scandal, and an economy ravaged by Covid have Ecuador staring into the abyss.

Blinken vows to ‘correct imbalance’ in Washington’s approach to Latin America

22-10-2021 10:53 US secretary of state discusses Washington’s new approach to the region during a short trip to Quito and Bogotá.

More than 100 dead in Ecuador's latest prison violence

30-09-2021 15:55 The death toll from bloody clashes between rival gangs in an Ecuador prison reached 116, with nearly 80 more wounded, President Guillermo Lasso said Wednesday.

Regional human rights body slams Ecuador over prison deaths

23-08-2021 20:39 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns violence in Ecuadorean prisons that has left 121 inmates dead this year.

Six Latin American, Caribbean heads call for equitable vaccine access

25-05-2021 09:44 Six presidents of Latin American and Caribbean countries call on the international community for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, asking those countries with the most doses to share them. 

Lasso inaugurated as first right-wing Ecuador president in 14 years

24-05-2021 22:21 Conservative Guillermo Lasso assumed the presidency of Ecuador on Monday, becoming the country's first right-wing leader in 14 years.

Second waves and tsunamis also electoral

17-04-2021 08:13 The extreme fragmentation of the vote in Peru not only brings back memories from recent Argentine electoral history, but might well also be the shape of things to come for the midterm elections in October.

by Michael Soltys

Lasso: the Catholic conservative pledging to change Ecuador's destiny

12-04-2021 11:29 Guillermo Lasso has returned the conservative right to power in Ecuador, winning Sunday's presidential election after two defeats that failed to discourage him.

Environmentalists dismayed by Ecuador presidential candidates

08-04-2021 16:09 Leftist Andrés Arauz faces the right-wing Guillermo Lasso in a run-off election, with both vowing to continue oil and mineral extraction, which has already devastated a sixth of Ecuador's Amazon jungle.

Staff at Galapagos airport, Ecuador, find 185 tortoises in suitcase

29-03-2021 15:03 Staff at an airport on the Galapagos Islands have found 185 tortoises, ten of which were dead, in a suitcase that was heading for Ecuador's mainland. Police are now investigating the incident.

At least 62 inmates dead in Ecuador prison riots

23-02-2021 21:52 At least 62 inmates died Tuesday and several were injured in riots blamed on gang rivalry at three jails in Ecuador's overcrowded prison system, authorities said.

Arauz, Lasso advance to Ecuador presidential run-off

22-02-2021 12:30 Leftist economist Andrés Arauz will face conservative Guillermo Lasso in the upcoming second round of Ecuador's presidential election, officials confirmed Sunday. Third-place finisher, indigenous leader Yaku Pérez, vows to appeal.

IMF’s woes in Latin America set to grow after Ecuador vote

09-02-2021 17:01 IMF risks having to renegotiate its second multi-billion dollar loan in Latin America in as many years following Ecuador’s presidential election.

Ecuador: leftist candidates Arauz and Pérez head to run-off

08-02-2021 18:59 With just under 90 per cent of the total ballots counted, two leaders from the left are set to compete for the presidential role in a run-off vote: economist Andrés Arauz and indigenous activist Yaku Pérez.