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Montevideo, May 5th 2025 - 15:08 UTC

Tag: Ecuador

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Tuesday, March 18th 2025 - 19:01 UTC

    Nearly 500,000 people affected by oil spill in Ecuador

    Petroecuador blamed a landslide due to heavy rains in recent weeks for the spill

    Local communities in the Ecuadorean province of Esmeraldas were still protesting Tuesday after a major oil spill last week left some 500,000 residents with no access to drinking water, in addition to other environmental damages.

  • Tuesday, March 18th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

    Europol/Ecuador, large cocaine bust, 73 tons and coordination with major EU ports

    The criminal structure Ecuador is part of an intercontinental criminal network involved in multi-ton cocaine trafficking via sea containers from South America to Europe.

    A large-scale drug trafficking investigation, supported by Europol, led to the dismantling of an Ecuadorian criminal cell involved in supplying wholesale cocaine to the EU via major ports. The international operation, led by the Ecuadorian National Police (Policía Nacional del Ecuador), also involved the German Criminal Police (LKA Baden-Württemberg), German Customs (ZFA Stuttgart) and the Spanish Guardia Civil.

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