Ecuador election 2025 Ecuador heads to election run-off between Noboa and González 10-02-2025 08:58 With more than 90% of the ballots counted, incumbent President Daniel Noboa has 44.3% and rival Luisa González 43.8%, with a run-off set to decide the nation's future.
BLOOMBERG - ANALYSIS Leftist leaders are failing their promises across Latin America 21-10-2024 14:20 The changing political landscape in Latin America, highlights the decline of leftist governments due to economic challenges, crime, and social reform failures, and the rise of more business-friendly, right-leaning administrations.
Foreign relations & diplomacy Argentina joins 10 other nations in rejecting Maduro vote certification 23-08-2024 12:58 Argentina, along with the United States and nine Latin American countries, issues statement rejecting the Venezuela Supreme Court's certification of President Nicolás Maduro's July 28 re-election.
Copa América 2024 'Dibu' Martínez recreates penalty heroics for Argentina against Ecuador 05-07-2024 00:26 Argentina reach Copa America semi-finals thanks to win on penalties over Ecuador after 1-1 draw; Goalkeeper Emiliano 'Dibu' Martínez the hero once again after saving two spot-kicks after Lionel Messi had missed.
Copa América 2024 Argentina set sights on semis as Copa América knockout stage begins 03-07-2024 22:20 Lionel Messi's fitness remains in doubt ahead of Thursday's Copa América quarter-final with Ecuador with Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni saying he will wait before deciding on his team.
International football Di María on target as Argentina down Ecuador 1-0 10-06-2024 10:10 Ángel Di María scores only goal of the game as Argentina warm up for the defence of their Copa América crown with a 1-0 friendly victory over Ecuador in Chicago.
Science & Nature In Darwin's footsteps: scientists recreate historic 1830s expedition 30-05-2024 12:45 Sarah Darwin, the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, is one of a group of scientists and environmentalists who have sailed from Plymouth to the Galapagos over the last year.
DIPLOMATIC ROW Ecuador in diplomatic storm after raid at Mexican Embassy 07-04-2024 09:14 Ecuador slammed by Latin American peers after police storm the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest former vice-president Jorge Glas.
Archaeology Roads, farming threaten Ecuador 'lost city' complex 14-02-2024 06:37 The remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadorean cities are being threatened by road and farm encroachment just as its long-held secrets are being revealed.
Ecuador drug war Ecuador nabs wanted narco-trafficker, president says crackdown bearing fruit 23-01-2024 15:37 Carlos Arturo Landazuri Cortes, nickname 'El Gringo,' was arrested on Monday; Accused is the alleged leader of a drug-dealing dissident group and suspected of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of three Ecuadorean journalists in 2018.
Drug war crisis Relatives of Ecuador drug boss 'Fito' arrested and deported from Argentina 19-01-2024 12:40 Security forces arrest and detain relatives of fugitive drug-boss Jose Adolfo Macías, alias 'Fito,' in Córdoba; Wife and children deported in early hours of Friday morning.
Ecuador drug war Soldiers enter key Ecuador prison as 'war' on narcos deepens 18-01-2024 14:08 Hundreds of soldiers enter a prison in a Guayaquil as part of crackdown on drug bosses, day after high-profile assassination of prosecutor investigating last week's attack on public TV station.
Narco-violence terrorises Ecuador Ecuador’s ‘armed conflict’ against drug cartels explodes into violence 11-01-2024 16:50 Tanks and soldiers patrol the streets of Ecuador as third day of terror continues; Cartels have ‘declared war’ against President Daniel Noboa and the national government.
NARCO-VIOLENCE IN ECUADOR Ecuador's 'armed conflict' with drug gangs – what we know 10-01-2024 18:21 What you need to know about the unfolding crisis in troubled Ecuador.
ARMED ATTACK Gunmen burst into Ecuador television studio live on air 09-01-2024 17:15 Armed men wearing balaclavas burst into studio of public television station in Ecuador's drug violence-torn port city of Guayaquil, taking hostage several journalists and staff members.
Profile: Ecuador's next president Daniel Noboa, banana empire heir to Ecuador's youngest president 16-10-2023 10:18 Voted in as Ecuador's youngest-ever president-elect, Daniel Noboa vowed Sunday after his election win to work to "restore peace" to the country in the grips of a bloody drug gang war.
Election in Ecuador Daniel Noboa, Ecuador's youngest-ever president, vows to 'restore peace' 16-10-2023 09:55 Banana empire heir Daniel Noboa is Ecuador's youngest-ever president-elect at 35; Candidate vows to "restore peace" to a country ravaged by a bloody drug gang war.
WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Do-or-die mentality ensures La Scaloneta retains necessary intensity 14-09-2023 11:32 Argentina approach every match as if the fate of the world hung on its outcome, and that furious mentality – and no little class – saw them through a potentially tricky start to their World Cup title defence. by Dan Edwards
BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS Milei should dollarise Argentina at once, says man who did it in Ecuador 13-09-2023 14:15 Francisco Zalles, one of the few economists in world with experience of introducing dollarisation, is gung ho about libertarian frontrunner’s plan. Do it, and do it quick, he says.
Election in Ecuador Polar opposite candidates set to vie for Ecuador presidency 21-08-2023 09:24 Ecuador election heads for a second-round showdown that will pit leftist frontrunner Luisa González against Daniel Noboa, the conservative son of one of the country's richest men.
Election in Ecuador Ecuador heads to presidential run-off pitting left against right 21-08-2023 09:16 Luisa González, a lawyer close to divisive former leader Rafael Correa, emerges as frontrunner after Ecuador presidential election; She will face Daniel Noboa in a second-round showdown in October.
IN FOCUS Murder, cocaine and tears: Ecuador confronts a perilous descent 11-08-2023 09:33 Fernando Villavicencio’s assassination has thrust unwanted attention on Ecuador. Just a few years ago it had enjoyed the reputation of being tranquil and relatively safe but now its descent toward becoming a narco-state has become evident in the eyes of the world.
ECUADOR Fernando Villavicencio: fierce opponent of corruption 10-08-2023 10:17 Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead after holding a rally in Quito on Wednesday evening. The 59-year-old journalist, was one of eight candidates in the August 20 presidential election.
ASSASSINATION IN ECUADOR Ecuador presidential candidate shot dead after rally 09-08-2023 21:54 Ecuadorean presidential candidate and journalist Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead after holding a rally in Quito on Wednesday evening, local media reported.
Political crisis in Ecuador Facing impeachment, Ecuador President Lasso dissolves Congress 17-05-2023 09:36 Ecuadorean leader controversially dissolves Congress by decree after opposition-dominated National Assembly launches second attempt to oust him in less than a year.
FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY Fernández: Diplomatic crisis with Ecuador is ‘unjust, unconscionable’ 21-03-2023 16:37 President slams Ecuador’s response to diplomatic crisis as “serious, unjust and unconscionable"; Growing rift caused by the mysterious appearance in Venezuela of a convicted Ecuadorean ex-minister.
RIGHT UNITES IN FORUM LatAm, Euro leaders form group to tackle ‘populist left’ 18-03-2023 09:33 Mauricio Macri among leaders who sign up to new political forum designed to regional coordination and take on the “populist” left; Grupo Libertad y Democracia founded by former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera.
DIPLOMATIC SPAT Ecuador and Argentina in diplomatic row over fugitive ex-minister 15-03-2023 10:34 Diplomatic spat escalates after it emerged María de los Ángeles Duarte, a convicted former cabinet minister who had been living in the Argentine Embassy in Quito, had escaped to Venezuela.
FOREIGN RELATIONS & DIPLOMACY Ecuador questions Argentina over ex-minister's escape from embassy 14-03-2023 14:18 Ecuador's government summons Argentina's ambassador in Quito to respond to "inconsistencies" in information provided about the alleged escape from its embassy of a ex-government minister convicted of corruption.
HALLUCINAGENIC VINE Ayahuasca: 'source of knowledge' in the heart of the Amazon 01-03-2023 09:55 A tourist industry has taken root around ayahuasca, the powerful hallucinogenic concoction said to open the door to the spirit world. But indigenous healers are set against the commercialisation of the plant.