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Montevideo, May 16th 2025 - 16:56 UTC

Tag: Ecuador

  • Saturday, May 10th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    At least 11 Ecuadorean troops killed in fight against illegal mining

    FARC dissidents were said to be behind the ambush

    At least 11 Ecuadorean troops were killed Friday in an ambush during an operation against illegal gold mining in the Alto Punino sector of the Amazon, near the Colombian border in Napo and Orellana provinces.

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  • Tuesday, May 6th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Ecuador under epidemiological alert for pertussis, yellow fever, and leptospirosis

    According to Lama, yellow fever “is contained” in the Ecuadorean Amazon

    Ecuador has mandated mask-wearing in schools across provinces like Guayas, Manabí, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Guayaquil, and Pichincha for 60 days due to an epidemiological alert caused by rising cases of whooping cough (321 cases, primarily in children) and yellow fever (four cases in Amazonian provinces).

  • Thursday, May 1st 2025 - 18:55 UTC

    Unknown infectious agent kills eight Ecuadorean children

    The tests' results will be available around May 10

    At least eight Ecuadorean children in Taisha, in the province of Morona Santiago bordering Peru, died between February and April 2025 due to an unknown infectious agent, showing symptoms like fever, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, gastrointestinal issues, dehydration, and pneumonia. In this scenario, the Health Ministry has deployed extensive epidemiological efforts, including medical brigades, water and food analyses, and community interventions, but the cause remains unidentified.

  • Saturday, April 19th 2025 - 10:33 UTC

    At least 11 killed at Ecuador cockfighting event

    The perpetrators wore military uniforms are seized US$ 20,000 from the premises

    At least 11 people were killed and nine injured when a group of armed attackers, disguised as soldiers, stormed a cockfighting event in the rural community of La Valencia in the Ecuadorean province of Manabí.

  • Tuesday, April 15th 2025 - 10:46 UTC

    Maduro says Ecuadorean elections “a horrendous fraud”

    Maduro said the Venezuelan opposition was behind the events in Ecuador

    Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro, who remained in power following controversial elections that the opposition claims to have won, said Sunday's polls in Ecuador, where Daniel Noboa was reelected with 55.64% of the vote, were a “horrendous fraud.” The Chavista leader urged Ecuadorians to resist and defend their sovereignty.

  • Tuesday, April 15th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Orsi reviews fraud allegations and congratulates Noboa on his win

    Vargas Llosa was a “genius” regardless of his ideology, Orsi also pointed out

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi congratulated Daniel Noboa on his reelection in Ecuador after discussing the fraud allegations with Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin, it was reported in Montevideo. The Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) leader also mourned the passing of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and reviewed the Arazatí Water Project as well as the country's situation regarding soup kitchens and homelessness.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Noboa reelected as President of Ecuador

    Noboa celebrated, although González did not acknowledge defeat and spoke of fraud

    Daniel Noboa was reelected president of Ecuador with nearly 56% of the vote against Luisa González's almost 44.2% in Sunday's runoff, the National Electoral Council (CNE) confirmed. It was a rematch of the 2023 runoff in which Noboa prevailed as well.

  • Thursday, April 10th 2025 - 19:05 UTC

    Ecuador closing campaigns ahead of Sunday's runoff

    Ecuador will have to choose between Noboa and González in a close run-off

    Ecuador's presidential contenders, the incumbent Daniel Noboa and challenger Luisa González, are rounding up their campaigns ahead of Sunday's runoff, which will be a rematch of the Oct. 15, 2023, elections, where the banana businessman was elected to fulfill the departing Guillermo Lasso's term.

  • Monday, March 31st 2025 - 10:25 UTC

    Gellibert appointed again as Ecuador's VP in charge

    Gellibert appointed again as Ecuador's VP in charge

    Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa appointed Cynthia Gellibert as Vice President on Saturday, replacing Veronica Abad, who was disenfranchised for two years by the Electoral Contentious Tribunal (TCE) in a 3-2 decision issued in a gender-based political violence counterclaim filed by Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld following Abad’s initial lawsuit against Noboa and others for alleged harassment.

  • Friday, March 28th 2025 - 19:26 UTC

    Ecuadorean President's family linked to cocaine shipments to Europe

    The scandal unfolds as Noboa campaigns for reelection against González at the upcoming April 13 runoff, a rematch of when he was first chosen

    The banana producing and trading firm belonging to Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa's family has been linked to cocaine exporting to Europe, hidden in fruit shipments from the port of Guayaquil. Journalist Andrés Durán -known locally as “The Chochologist”- has fled the country due to death threats. He claims to have evidence against Noboa Trading.

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