Tag: Ecuador

• Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  New riot at Ecuadorian prison leaves 16 dead

  

  At least 16 inmates have been reported dead earlier this week following yet a new episode of prison rioting in Ecuador, where over 400 prisoners have lost their lives in separate events since February of 2021.

• Monday, October 3rd 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Ecuadorian women march against gender violence

  

  Ecuadorian women took to the streets during the weekend to protest against the 206 femicides already recorded in the country during 2022 in the aftermath of María Belén Bernal's murder.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 10:35 UTC

  Ecuador sacks Interior Minister over police officer wife's murder scandal

  

  Ecuador's Interior Minister Patricio Carrillo has been sacked by President Guillermo Lasso after the official was linked to a case of femicide, it was reported in Quito. Colonel Juan Zapata has been appointed as the new Minister of Interior.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Ecuador: Terrorist act leaves 5 dead and many others in critical condition

  

  A bombing in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil has left at least five people dead and some 20 others injured, in what the government believes to be the doings of organized crime groups.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Ecuadorian gov't and indigenist protesters reach agreement to lift strike

  

  The Ecuadorian administration of President Guillermo Lasso and indigenist demonstrators have agreed to lift the current series of protests following a cut in the price of fuel, it was reported in Quito.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 02:21 UTC

  Motion to remove Ecuador's President Lasso fails to get enough National Assembly votes

  

  Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso survived an impeachment attempt late Tuesday when a motion to remove him from office submitted by the opposition Union for Hope (Unes) of former President Rafael Correa fail to garner enough votes at the National Assembly. The initiative was 12 votes short of its goal.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Ecuador: Lasso halts dialogue with Conaie after Army Sgt killed

  

  Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso Tuesday announced in a broadcast message that he was suspending all dialogue with the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) after the death of a military officer during an attack by rebel groups against a convoy in Amazonia.

• Friday, June 24th 2022 - 21:15 UTC

  Ecuador's Conaie decries death of 4th protester during general strike

  

  Ecuador's Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) has denounced a fourth protester who has died during demonstrations, while human rights groups insisted that repression coupled with abuse of force jeopardized the lives of people exercising their right to express themselves against the policies of President Guillermo Lasso's administration.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  80 arrested in Ecuadorian protests, police say

  

  Ecuadorian police have reported that 80 people had been arrested in arrests in anti-government protests over the past few days following riots in Quito and other parts of the country where a curfew is in force and a state of emergency has been declared.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Ecuador's President says indigenist groups out to topple him

  

  Ecuador's Conservative President Guillermo Lasso Monday said the indigenist groups staging protests nationwide wanted to overthrow him from office, for which they need chaos to mount.