Tag: Ecuador

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Ecuador in turmoil: shopkeepers arrested for raising food prices while street clashes continue

  

  Ecuadorean authorities began arresting shopkeepers for raising food prices as indigenous groups clashed with security forces on Sunday in the fourth day of protests against President Lenin Moreno's austerity measures.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Ecuador will eliminate fuel subsidies and tighten the belt of public employees

  

  Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno said that his government will eliminate subsidies for diesel and low-octane gasoline and create a new corporate tax as part of a package of measures to narrow the country’s fiscal deficit.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Ecuador declares state of emergency to contain protests against elimination of fuel subsidies

  

  Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno declared a state of emergency Thursday as protests broke out nationwide over the end of decades-old fuel subsidies as part of a $2 billion government fiscal reform package. Police responded with tear gas in the worst unrest for years in the oil-producing Andean nation.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Spanish company working for the CIA spied on Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London

  

  A Spanish private security firm, which is under investigation in Madrid, spied on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of the CIA while he was inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, El Pais daily reported Friday.

• 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.