Tag: Ecuador

• Friday, December 2nd 2022 - 19:06 UTC

  Argentina grants political asylum to former Ecuadorian Minister convicted of corruption

  

  Citing humanitarian grounds, the Government of Argentina has granted diplomatic asylum to the Ecuadorian national Maria de los Angeles Duarte Pesantes, a former official under former President Rafael Correa.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2022 - 23:00 UTC

  Ecuador first South Americans eliminated from Qatar 2022 Cup

  

  Ecuador became the first Soth American team to be eliminated from the Qatar 2022 football World Cup following Tuesday's 2-1 loss to Senegal, while The Netherlands finished top of Group A by defeating the hosts 2-0 to book an appointment with the United States in the round of 16.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Ecuadorian poultry farm detected to have cases of bird flu

  

  Ecuadorian authorities have activated an epidemiological encirclement following a surge in cases of avian influenza. The first confirmation stemmed from a poultry production farm in the Andean province of Cotopaxi thanks to controls by the Agency for Regulation and Phytosanitary and Zoosanitary Control (Agrocalidad), the Agriculture and Livestock Ministry said.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 13:30 UTC

  Ecuador wins World Cup opening game despite bribe rumors

  

  Narrated by American actor Morgan Freeman, the opening ceremony marked the beginning of the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar, an event that had been in doubt from the beginning, from the scandals splashing FIFA's awarding its organization to the non-democratic country to all-out global war from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

• Saturday, November 19th 2022 - 10:26 UTC

  Rumors of bribe hit Ecuador's team playing in Qatar

  

  As the World Cup is about to kick off Sunday in Qatar, reports went viral regarding the hosts alleged bribing of Ecuadorian players for US$ 7.4 million so that the hosts would win the tournament's opening game.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 20:31 UTC

  New Ecuadorian prison riot leaves 5 inmates dead

  

  Another prison riot in Ecuador Monday evening has left at least five inmates dead and six others wounded at the Pichincha correctional facility in Quito also known as “El Inca,” where some 1,365 inmates are housed.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2022 - 20:41 UTC

  At least 53 arrested in violence-torn Ecuador

  

  At least 53 people have been arrested in Ecuador following a wave of drug trafficking attacks Tuesday in the coastal cities of Guayaquil, Durán, and Esmeraldas.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  One inmate dies in yet another prison riot in Ecuador

  

  At least one inmate was killed and two others were injured Monday in yet a new prison riot in Ecuador, the National Service of Integral Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) reported.

• Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Ecuador Legislative overwhelmingly votes in support of Argentina's claims

  

  Ecuador's one House Legislative Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday in support of Argentina and “its battle in defense of Malvinas, South Georgia, and South Sandwich Islands, and adjoining maritime and insular spaces”, which according to the Argentine ministry of foreign affairs, “are illegitimately occupied by the United Kingdom”.

• Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 22:06 UTC

  Ecuadorian military finds more than 750 antipersonnel mines in border with Colombia

  

  More than 750 handmade antipersonnel mines were found in the Amazonian province of Sucumbios, bordering Colombia. The finding in charge of the Ecuadorian military was reported Thursday by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces.