Tag: Ecuador

• Saturday, April 20th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Energy crisis prompts new emergency declaration in Ecuador

  

  Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Friday issued a decree establishing yet another state of emergency due to a “serious internal commotion and public calamity” in the violence-torn South American country which is going through an energy crisis in addition to drug-trafficking gang crimes. Power cuts last up to about eight hours a day amid tight “rationing of electricity.”

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• Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 10:16 UTC

  Another mayor shot dead in Ecuador

  

  José Sánchez, mayor of the Ecuadorean town of Camilo Ponce Enríquez, in the canton of Azuay, was murdered Wednesday night along with two other people when his home was stormed by hitmen.

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• Saturday, April 13th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  Ecuador's govt issues guidelines for application of euthanasia

  

  Ecuador's conservative government of President Daniel Noboa Friday issued the guidelines for the implementation of euthanasia following the Constitutional Court's (CC) instructions in a ruling granting the request of 42-year-old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient Paola Roldán who died on March 11. The malady is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

• Saturday, April 6th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Mexican embassy in Quito stormed by police, diplomatic ties with Ecuador severed

  

  The Government of Mexico announced it was cutting off all diplomatic ties with Ecuador after local authorities stormed Friday into the Embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas, who has sought asylum in the diplomatic mission.

• Friday, April 5th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

  Ecuador expels Mexican ambassador over AMLO remarks

  

  The Government of Ecuador Thursday declared Mexican Ambassador to Quito Raquel Serur Smeke “persona non grata” after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)'s “very unfortunate” remarks regarding the murder of presidential candidate Francisco Villavicencio. The diplomat must now leave the South American country.

• Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:14 UTC

  Joint statement issued against the arrest of Venezuelan opposition activist

  

  Given the arrest in Venezuela of opposition activist Rocío San Miguel last week, the governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay issued a joint statement Thursday calling for her release.

• Friday, February 9th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

  Ecuadorean councilwoman shot dead

  

  Ecuador's so-called “internal armed conflict” added a victim to its list of fatalities late Wednesday when 29-year-old Councilwoman Diana Carnero from the coastal municipality of Naranjal was shot dead in what is believed to be a murder-for-hire case.

• Friday, January 26th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

  Ecuador gives US useless Russian weapons despite Moscow's warning

  

  Ecuador's Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld admitted that his country sold useless Russian-built weaponry to the United States in exchange for operational arms to wage the South American country's war against drug trafficking gangs. The measure was adopted despite Moscow's advice against it, it was explained.

• Thursday, January 25th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

  Spain expresses its support to Daniel Noboa against violence in Ecuador

  

  Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa admitted Wednesday in Madrid that it was very hard for him to leave his country amid the current wave of violence by drug-trafficking gangs but insisted it was necessary “to face the world” at the same time. The South American leader's words came during the opening of the Fitur 2024 tourism fair in the Spanish capital.

• Wednesday, January 24th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

  Ecuador eases curfew severity as violence gradually subsides

  

  Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa Tuesday decreed a one-hour reduction to the curfew after the number of daily homicides was reported to have fallen from 27 to 11 nationwide in a country under a state of emergency following drug-trafficking gang revolts.