Ecuador

Indigenous community in Ecuador wins legal fight to reclaim ancestral land after more than 80 years

CNN — An indigenous community has won a court battle to regain ownership over its ancestral homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 80 years after they were displaced because of war. An Ecuadorian appeals court backed the Siekopai nation’s claim over Pë’këya, a biodiverse territory in northeast Ecuador along the border with Peru, according …

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Egypt Independent November 30, 2023

Noboa, 35, to become Ecuador’s next president following election dominated by spiraling crime

CNN — Center-right candidate Daniel Noboa, the 35-year-old son of a banana tycoon, will become Ecuador’s next president, following an election driven by concerns over rising violence and a worsening security situation in the Latin American nation. More than 10 million people have voted in the presidential election, and data from the National Electoral Council …

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Egypt Independent October 16, 2023

Dozens of prison officers freed after being taken hostage in Ecuador jails

CNN — Fifty prison guards and seven police officers have been freed after being taken hostage by inmates held in six prisons across Ecuador, authorities said, part of a coordinated protest against security operations being conducted inside the country’s violence-plagued penitentiaries. The protests began on Thursday, according to Ecuador’s penitentiary service, the SNAI, hours after …

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Egypt Independent September 2, 2023

Assassinations cast a grim shadow as Ecuador selects a new president

CNN — Ecuadorians are voting in presidential and legislative elections that have been overshadowed by political assassinations and violence driven by criminal organizations vying for control of the country’s drug trafficking routes. Nearly 100,000 troops will be dispatched to ensure public safety and order across Ecuador on election day, Ecuador’s government says. It was more …

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Egypt Independent August 20, 2023

Villavicencio assassination a ‘disturbing moment’ for Ecuador democracy, former running mate says

Quito, Ecuador CNN — The assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio marks a “disturbing moment” for the region and democracy, his successor and former running mate Andrea González Náder has told CNN in an exclusive interview. “You never have enough time to process something so shocking and so sobering as the assassination of a …

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Egypt Independent August 13, 2023

Ecuador woman alive in coffin during her wake dies

A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive … Continued

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The New Daily June 18, 2023

Ecuador is in trouble and its president may pay the price

Ecuador was known as the “isla de paz” – an island of peace – in the 1980s, when compared to its neighbors Colombia and Peru, some of the world’s biggest producers of cocaine. But a deadly escalation of violence has upended that reputation in past few years, as rights groups say the Andean nation has …

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Egypt Independent May 4, 2023