Tag: Quito

• Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Quito Metro does not run smoothly on first day of commercial service

  

  Ecuadoreans stood in long lines Tuesday to buy tickets for the first day of commercial services by Quito's new underground railway system, it was reported. The Quito Metro had been performing free-of-charge test rides for the past four months.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Quito opens first subway line in a peculiar way

  

  Ecuadorian authorities Wednesday celebrated the opening of Quito's first subway line, which will for now not be operational. In other words, trains will not be running until a later date, but the stations are open for people to get used to the new system. “Static induction,” they call it.

• 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.

• 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.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Mexico grants political asylum to members of Ecuadorean opposition holed in its Quito embassy

  

  Mexico granted political asylum on Thursday to four members of Ecuador's opposition holed up in its embassy in Quito since widespread social unrest in October, the foreign ministry said. The four lawmakers, including former Congress speaker Gabriela Rivadeneira, “took a commercial flight to Mexico” early Thursday, the ministry said in a statement.

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Ecuador resumes oil exports after days of violent protests

  

  Ecuador on Sunday said it had resumed crude oil exports curbed by violent protests that forced several wells in the Amazon to halt operations.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Clashes in Ecuador as big march approaches Quito to protest rising fuel prices

  

  Hundreds of indigenous people and farmers clashed with Ecuadoran security forces on Monday as they marched toward the capital Quito to protest against rising fuel prices.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 21:13 UTC

  President of Uruguay criticizes Prosur for “generating another integration with ideological purpose”

  

  Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez questioned on Thursday the Colombian-Chilean initiative to create a new integration bloc to replace the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and argued that the region has a number of integration processes that collide and they become inefficient.

• Friday, September 7th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Latin American countries will receive Venezuelan migrants even with expired documents

  

  Eleven Latin American countries say that they have agreed to allow Venezuelans leaving their homeland to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled the country's hyperinflation and severe shortages, but many do not have valid passports because renewing them can take years.

• Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 05:34 UTC

  Earthquake strikes Quito kills two and violently shakes buildings

  

  A shallow 5.1-magnitude earthquake has struck the Ecuadorian capital Quito, triggering landslides that killed at least two people and violently shaking buildings and homes. Another eight people were injured and three others trapped in the landslides at quarries on the outskirts of Quito, the country's risk management agency said on Twitter.