Tag: Ecuador

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Major leak of information exposes personal data on line of almost the entire population of Ecuador

  

  Almost the entire population of Ecuador had their personal data leaked online, security experts said on Monday, a massive breach that the government called a “very delicate” issue.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Ecuador combats pollution: recyclable plastic bottles exchanged for money to buy local transport tickets

  

  Looking after the environment is paying off in Ecuador, at least for public transport users in the business hub of Guayaquil. A new scheme aimed at combating garbage and pollution allows people to exchange recyclable plastic bottles for money to buy bus tickets.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 14:01 UTC

  Maduro's government keeps flying voluntary refugees back to Venezuela

  

  Return to the Fatherland flights for migrants who want to return to Venezuela will resume Tuesday and Wednesday, the Nicolás Maduro administration announced.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2019 - 10:26 UTC

  UK, Ecuador agree Assange not to be extradited where he could be executed

  

  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will not be extradited to any country with capital punishment, Britain's Minister for the Americas and Europe, Alan Duncan announced Monday in Quito after a meeting with Ecuador's Foreign Minister José Valencia.

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 11:30 UTC

  Assange friend, and alleged hacker, freed in Ecuador but cannot leave the country

  

  An Ecuadorean judge on Thursday ordered that a Swedish citizen and personal friend of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange be freed, two months after he was detained for alleged participation in a hacking attempt on the government.

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 08:24 UTC

  Ecuador highest court approves same sex-marriage

  

  Ecuador's highest court on Wednesday approved same-sex marriage in a landmark ruling in the traditionally Catholic and conservative South American country. The Constitutional Court said same-sex marriage had been approved in a five-to-four vote of its nine judges in a closed hearing.

• Saturday, June 8th 2019 - 07:46 UTC

  Ecuador denies extradition of US citizen charged with trying to defraud Facebook's Zuckenberg

  

  Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno has blocked the extradition to the United States of a New York man charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg, according to a document obtained by Reuters.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia disputing rights over the .amazon domain

  

  The presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia criticized a recent decision by the organization that manages internet protocol to grant global retailer Amazon the rights to the .amazon domain.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  “Spider” man arrested in Ecuador and sentenced to two years in prison

  

  A Japanese man was sentenced to two years in prison in Ecuador for attempting to smuggle a massive haul of creepy crawlies out of the country, officials said on Thursday.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Ecuadorean president claims Assange used the embassy in London as a “center for spying”

  

  Julian Assange used the Ecuadorian embassy in London as a “centre for spying”, the country's leader has said. Lenin Moreno also said no other nation had influenced the decision to revoke the WikiLeaks founder's asylum, which he said followed violations by Assange.