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Viernes, 15/3/2024 Hola, Todos – I hope you all had a happy Pi Day yesterday (March 14=3/14=3.14159). I celebrated with pizza and made a rhubarb pie. There were 2 packages of rhubarb at the Coral on Wed. afternoon, so unless they restocked, now there aren’t any. I didn’t post Periodicos on lunes or miércoles because...
Peruvian authorities have arrested 18 people as part of an investigation into an arms trafficking ring and its role in the 2023 assassination of an Ecuadorian presidential candidate. At least 600 police officers raided homes and offices in Lima and in the Tumbes, Cajamarca and Piura regions along Peru’s border with Ecuador on Wednesday. Among...
Ecuador’s Health Ministry reported Thursday that the country has recorded seven deaths and more than 8,000 cases of mosquito-borne dengue fever since the beginning of 2024. As the rainy season begins in the coastal region of the country, more cases are expected in what health officials say is the worst outbreak in years. They say...
The government announced Wednesday it is creating a specialized police force to investigate crimes of extortion, including kidnappings. According to National Police Colonel Byron Ramos, head of the National Directorate of Crimes Against Life (Dinased), the team will act mainly in cities such as Guayaquil, Quito, Manta and Esmeraldas where extortion crime has increased in...
By Mark Hay In 1999, the Peruvian press celebrated a decisive victory for their nation over the great avatar of globalized consumerism, Coca-Cola. For decades, the transnational behemoth had tried to become the top-selling soda in Peru. Yet it never managed to surpass a locally beloved brand, Inca Kola. A brew the Chicago Tribune once described as...
Over the objections of several priests, Archbishop Marcos Pérez has appointed Father Francisco Calle as the official Cuenca diocese exorcist. According to the Archbishop’s office, the position had been vacant for several years. Pérez said that Calle would be available to diocese priests who request his services. “Father Calle will first make an assessment of...
By Julie Campbell The indigenous Achuar community in Ecuador’s Amazon region is undergoing a game-changing transition to solar energy to power its homes and the boats that navigate jungle waterways. The population of the village numbers about 100 people and is entirely surrounded by Ecuador’s largest oil reserves. For over four decades village residents have...
Paola Roldán, the woman who fought for the decriminalization of euthanasia in Ecuador, died Monday from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The painful disease, first diagnosed in 2020, kept Roldan 95% disabled and hooked up to a breathing machine and under palliative care. Hours before her death and with the help of her medical team, Roldán...
A conference of international prison experts concluded Saturday, offering a series of recommendations to Ecuador’s government of how to reestablish control of prisons. Among the recommendations offered at the International Conference on Prison and Citizen Security, were to create a specialized prison police force, revise laws governing the country’s judicial system and to accelerate the...
By Gabriela Barzallo  “In a’ingae, my native language, the words oil, contamination, and cancer did not exist until Texaco arrived on our lands,” says Don Arturo, an elder among the A’i Kofán Siangoé people, one of Ecuador’s 11 Amazonian communities. The A’i Kofán worldview is based on an intimate relationship with nature and its environment,...
President Daniel Noboa said he and Attorney General Diana Salazar receive death threats almost daily. “She and I talk about this and compare the messages we get,” the president said Friday at a prison safety conference. “The messages we receive are an indication that we are doing our job by attacking the criminal organizations that...
By Matthew Bristow and Stephan Kueffner It’s the kind of opportunity most leaders can hardly fathom: voters rallying behind a government that is raising taxes, clearing the way for more oil drilling and planning to slash fuel subsidies. Ecuador’s 36-year-old President Daniel Noboa is overhauling the nation’s economic model in a way that would likely...

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Week of March 24

“They are pressuring me to resign so they can remove me from office,” denounced Verónica Abad, Vice President of the Republic.

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Ecuador Navigates Economic Challenges with IMF Agreement Looming.

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“Since when does thinking differently mean being a traitor?” Pierina Correa questions in reference to the Tourism Law.

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